A brief summary of the results achieved during the first year (2020) of the UncorrelaTEd project has been published after the first year reporting period. These are the main results:
- Nanostructured antimony-doped SnO2 films of different porosity have been prepared.
- The processes that produced unprecedented power factor improvements above 35 times in these films have been identified, and a new strategy has been demonstrated which allows a metallic material, e.g. Pt, to reach a Seebeck coefficient value above 1 mV/K without a significant variation of its electrical conductivity, which can lead to extremely large efficiencies never achieved before. A patent application for this result has been submitted by Universitat Jaume I.
- The initial nanostructured and porous films of bismuth telluride alloys have been prepared.
The details of the summary, which include some images, can be found here and at the Cordis site of the project.