Summary
Applications
- Automotive energy harvesting applications, since around 40% of the energy produced by internal combustion engines is currently lost in heat through the exhaust.
- Wireless devices/sensors segment is forecasted to account for over a third of the overall market for thermoelectric harvesters and cooling by 2023.
Advantages
- low conversion efficiency;
- toxicity and low availability of chemical elements constituting part of the thermoelectric materials.