UK scientists claim 15-fold performance increase for solar thermoelectric generator

A research team have fabricated a solar thermoelectric generator (STEG) that is reportedly 15 times more efficient than current state-of-the-art devices by concentrating on the managing the hot and the cold sides of the device rather its semiconductor materials. Scientists from the University of Rochester in the United Kingdom have fabricated a solar thermoelectric generator (STEG) that is reportedly 15 times more efficient than current state-of-the-art devices. A thermoelectric generator (TEG) can convert heat into electricity through the "Seebeck effect," which occurs when a temperature difference ...

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