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Investigation of Seebeck Effect in Metal Oxide Nanowires for Powering Autonomous Microsystems

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Sensors and Microsystems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 268))

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The Seebeck effect in ZnO (n-type) and CuO (p-type) nanowire bundles grown on alumina substrates has been investigated. By combining n- and p-type nanostructured elements, a planar thermoelectric device has been proposed and characterized, confirming the feasibility of fabricating planar thermoelectric generators based on metal oxide nanowires with the future aim of powering autonomous sensors and microsystems.

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Acknowledgments

Authors gratefully acknowledge partial financial support by the IIT, Project Seed 2009 “Metal oxide NANOwires as efficient high-temperature THERmoelectric Materials (NANOTHER).”

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123, Brescia, Italy

    Simone Dalola & Vittorio Ferrari

  2. SENSOR Lab, Università degli Studi di Brescia and CNR-IDASC, Via Valotti 9, 25133, Brescia, Italy

    Guido Faglia, Elisabetta Comini, Matteo Ferroni, Caterina Soldano, Dario Zappa & Giorgio Sberveglieri

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  1. Dept. of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Vittorio Ferrari

  3. SENSOR Laboratory, IDASC, National Research Council (CNR), Brescia, Italy

    Andrea Ponzoni

  4. Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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  5. Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Marco Ferrari

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Dalola, S. et al. (2014). Investigation of Seebeck Effect in Metal Oxide Nanowires for Powering Autonomous Microsystems. In: Di Natale, C., Ferrari, V., Ponzoni, A., Sberveglieri, G., Ferrari, M. (eds) Sensors and Microsystems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00684-0_1

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