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Make contact with silver

Nature Energy volume 8, pages 647–648 (2023)Cite this article

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Contact design is a major challenge in the development of thermoelectric devices. New research shows that silver nanoparticles soldered at low temperature can sustain high service temperatures, improving the stability of devices operating across a wide range of temperatures and exploiting the maximum working temperature of thermoelectric materials.

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Fig. 1: Working and soldering temperature for thermoelectric material and solder.

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  1. German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Materials Research, Cologne, Germany

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  2. University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of Technology for Nanostructures (NST) and CENIDE, Duisburg, Germany

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