Flexible thermoelectric generator module and method for producing the same
AssigneeKorea University Research and Business Foundation
InventorsSang Sig KIM, Kyoung Ah CHO, Jin Yong CHOI
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Abstract
The present invention provides a thermoelectric generator module including one or more module unit bodies disposed between a hot source and a cold source to serve as fundamental structures for performing thermoelectric power generation, wherein the module unit bodies are disposed on a exhaust pipe interposed between the hot source and the cold source, and provides a method of manufacturing the thermoelectric generator module.
Claims20
A thermoelectric generator module including one or more module unit bodies disposed between a hot source and a cold source to serve as fundamental structures for performing thermoelectric power generation,
- wherein the module unit bodies are disposed on a exhaust pipe interposed between the hot source and the cold source, and
- wherein each of the module unit bodies comprises:
- at least two first electrodes disposed at one of the hot source and the cold source so as to be spaced apart from each other;
- a second electrode disposed at the other of the hot source and the cold source so as to be spaced apart from the first electrodes;
- a first nanoparticle film configured to interconnect one of the first electrodes and the second electrode and composed of an n-type or p-type semiconductor;
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- a second nanoparticle film composed of a conductor or semiconductor of a type different from the type of the semiconductor forming the first nanoparticle film, and the second nanoparticle film being connected at one end thereof to one of the two first electrodes and connected at the other end thereof to the second electrode so as to be space apart from the first nanoparticle film.
A method of manufacturing a thermoelectric generator module, the method comprising:
- a nanoparticle solution provision step of providing a first nanoparticle solution comprising a first nanoparticle composed of an n-type or p-type semiconductor and a second nanoparticle solution comprising a second nanoparticle composed of a p-type or n-type semiconductor;
- a first electrode pattern formation step of forming a pattern for deposition of a conductive layer for first electrodes by performing a photolithography process on a exhaust pipe;
- a first electrode deposition step of depositing a conductive layer on the pattern 200 to form the first electrodes;
- a first nanoparticle film pattern formation step of forming a pattern for formation of a first nanoparticle film connected to the first electrodes by performing the photolithography process on at least one of the first electrodes formed on the exhaust pipe;
- a first nanoparticle film formation step of spin-coating the first nanoparticle solution on the pattern to form the first nanoparticle film;
- a second nanoparticle film pattern formation step of forming a pattern for formation of a second nanoparticle film that is alternately arranged with the first nanoparticle film so as to be spaced apart from the first nanoparticle film and is connected to the first electrode by performing the photolithography process on at least one of the first electrodes;
- a second nanoparticle film formation step of spin-coating the second nanoparticle solution on the pattern to form the second nanoparticle film;
- a second electrode pattern formation step of forming a pattern for deposition of a conductive layer for the second electrode by performing a photolithography process on the other sides of the first and second nanoparticle films;
- a second electrode deposition step of depositing a conductive layer on the pattern to form the second electrodes;
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- a protective layer formation step of forming a heat shielding protective layer on the first and second nanoparticle films between the first electrode 300 and the second electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.