Enhancing PV performance with graphite-based thermoelectric generator

Indian scientists have built a PV system coupled with a thermoelectric generator using graphite as a heat dissipator. The graphite-based system achieved a higher output and temperature gradient than a reference system without heat dissipation. Researchers from India's Vellore Institute of Technology have developed an experimental system, coupling PV with a thermoelectric generator (TEG) and a graphite sheet as a heat dissipation element. TEGs can convert heat into electricity through the "Seebeck effect," which occurs when a temperature difference between two different semiconductors produces ...

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