ABSTRACT
More than the half of the energy utilized in the United States is immediately rejected as waste heat [1], a signicant amount of which exists at low temperatures over large areas. At such temperatures, the conversion efciency of thermoelectric materials is low, making cost and capability for large-area deposition prime concerns in implementing TE generation. Organic semiconductors (OSCs) satisfy these requirements, given that their base elements are abundant in the earth’s crust (e.g., C, H, O) and they offer low manufacturing costs and capability for large-area deposition.
