{"id":233332,"date":"2026-03-14T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/thermoelectric-effect-in-mos2-mose2-heterostructures-experimental-evidence-and-theoretical-aspects"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:05:08","slug":"thermoelectric-effect-in-mos2-mose2-heterostructures-experimental-evidence-and-theoretical-aspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/thermoelectric-effect-in-mos2-mose2-heterostructures-experimental-evidence-and-theoretical-aspects","title":{"rendered":"Thermoelectric effect in MoS2\/MoSe2 heterostructures: Experimental evidence and theoretical aspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thermoelectric-effect-in-mos2-mose2-heterostructures-experimental-evidence-and-theoretical-aspects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Efficient energy harvesting for applications such as radioisotope thermoelectric generators and heat-recovery systems require novel thermoelectric materials with exceptional performance. This work demonstrates thermoelectric capabilities of <i>n-type<\/i> MoS2\/MoSe2 heterojunctions fabricated by scalable radiofrequency sputtering. These heterostructures demonstrated an outstanding experimental Seebeck coefficient of ~ \u2212 1.1 mV K\u22121 (\u0394T = 40 K), arising from thermally activated carriers with a low activation energy of 32 meV, and estimated thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT) values of ~ 1.0. Furthermore, computational calculations within framework of Density Functional Theory corroborate experimental findings allowing to elucidate a crucial role of atomic-scale in determining anisotropic thermoelectric properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efficient energy harvesting for applications such as radioisotope thermoelectric generators and heat-recovery systems require novel thermoelectric materials with exceptional performance. This work demonstrates thermoelectric capabilities of n-type MoS2\/MoSe2 heterojunctions fabricated by scalable radiofrequency sputtering. These heterostructures demonstrated an outstanding experimental Seebeck coefficient of ~ \u2212 1.1 mV K\u22121 (\u0394T = 40 K), arising from thermally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}