Printable Doped Polymer Semiconductors and Micro Thermoelectric Generators
Mario Caironi a
a CompuNet, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Genova, Italy
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of nanoGe Fall Meeting 2021 (NFM21)
#ThermoElect21. New concepts in organic/hybrid thermoelectrics
Online, Spain, 2021 October 18th - 22nd
Organizers: L. Jan Anton Koster and Derya Baran
Invited Speaker, Mario Caironi, presentation 129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2021.129
Publication date: 23rd September 2021

In this contribution, I will first report on our recent studies on solution-based n-type doping of polymer semiconductors, aimed at understanding current limits in molecular doping schemes. I will then focus on the development of printed organic micro thermoelectric generators (µTEG), as interesting energy harvesters candidates for distributed low power electronics and sensors networks. In particular, I will on describe an architecture where 128 thermocouples are directly embedded in a plastic substrate to improve the thermal coupling and simplify the fabrication process. Such proof-of-principle µTEG allows to envisage future efficient devices delivering µW/cm2 close to room temperature and at low temperature differences.

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