Preface ix Hiroyuki AKINAGA, Atsuko KOSUGA and Takao MORI -- Part 1 Introduction to Materials Development -- Chapter 1 Strategies for Development of High Performance Thermoelectric Materials 3 Takao MORI, Atsuko KOSUGA and Hiroyuki AKINAGA -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Selectively lowering the thermal conductivity -- 1.2.1 Utilizing nanostructuring and defects -- 1.2.2 Utilizing crystal structure and bonding -- 1.3 Enhancing the Seebeck coefficient/power factor -- 1.4 Outlook for materials development -- 1.5 References -- Chapter 2 Computational and Data-Driven Development of Thermoelectric Materials 17 Prashun GORAI and Michael TORIYAMA -- 2.1 General theory -- 2.1.1 Boltzmann transport theory -- 2.1.2 Relaxation time approximation -- 2.1.3 Thermoelectric properties -- 2.1.4 Defect theory -- 2.2 Applications -- 2.2.1 Transport calculations -- 2.2.2 Defect and doping calculations -- 2.2.3 Thermoelectric material search with high-throughput computations and machine learning -- 2.3 Outlook -- 2.4 References -- Part 2 Thermoelectric Materials -- Chapter 3 Thermoelectric Copper and Silver Chalcogenides 73 Holger KLEINKE -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Binary copper and silver chalcogenides -- 3.3 Ternary and higher copper and silver chalcogenides -- 3.3.1 Minerals based on copper and silver chalcogenides -- 3.3.2 Tl-containing copper and silver chalcogenides -- 3.3.3 Ba-containing copper and silver chalcogenides -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 3.5 Acknowledgments -- 3.6 References -- Chapter 4 Sulfide Thermoelectrics: Materials and Modules 93 Michihiro OHTA, Priyanka JOOD and Kazuki IMASATO -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Materials -- 4.2.1 Rare-earth sulfides -- 4.2.2 Layered sulfides -- 4.2.3 Pb-Bi-S-based systems -- 4.2.4 Cu and Ag sulfide-based superionic conductors -- 4.2.5 Tetrahedrites and colusites -- 4.2.6 Chevrel-phase sulfides -- 4.2.7 Chalcopyrite -- 4.3 Modules -- 4.3.1 Colusites -- 4.3.2 Cu and Ag sulfide-based superionic conductors -- 4.4 Summary and prospects -- 4.5 References -- Chapter 5 A Concise Review of Strongly Correlated Oxides 125 Ichiro TERASAKI -- 5.1 Introduction to electron correlation -- 5.2 Electronic states of transition-metal oxides -- 5.3 3D transition-metal oxides -- 5.3.1 Co oxides -- 5.3.2 Cu oxides -- 5.3.3 Other 3D transition-metal oxides -- 5.4 4D transition-metal oxides -- 5.4.1 Rh oxides -- 5.4.2 Ru oxides -- 5.5 Concluding remarks -- 5.6 References -- Chapter 6 Nanocarbon Materials as Thermoelectric Generators 149 Tsuyohiko FUJIGAYA and Yoshiyuki NONOGUCHI -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Carbon nanotubes -- 6.3 Transport to materials studies -- 6.4 Chemical doping -- 6.5 Thermoelectric generators using CNT -- 6.6 TEG based on CNT sheet -- 6.7 TEG fabrication based on CNT-based ink -- 6.8 CNT yarn and their fabric -- 6.9 Conclusion -- 6.10 References -- Part 3 Metrology of Thermal Properties -- Chapter 7 Precise Measurement of the Absolute Seebeck Coefficient from the Thomson Effect 183 Yasutaka AMAGAI -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Absolute scale of thermoelectricity -- 7.3 Measurement methods of the Thomson effect -- 7.3.1 Conventional method -- 7.3.2 New measurement methods: AC-DC method -- 7.4 Summary and outlook -- 7.5 References -- Chapter 8 Thermal Diffusivity Measurement of Thin Films by Ultrafast Laser Flash Method 201 Tetsuya BABA, Takahiro BABA and Takao MORI -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Laser flash method and ultrafast laser flash method -- 8.2.1 Laser flash method -- 8.2.2 Ultrafast laser flash method -- 8.3 Basic equation for data analysis -- 8.3.1 Response function method -- 8.3.2 Uniform single layer -- 8.3.3 Quadruple matrix -- 8.3.4 Thin film/substrate model -- 8.3.5 Temperature response after periodic pulse heating -- 8.4 Analysis of observed temperature response -- 8.4.1 Picosecond pulsed light heating -- 8.4.2 Nanosecond pulsed light heating -- 8.5 Metrological standard and traceability for measurements of thin film thermophysical properties -- 8.6 Application of measurement from industrial to basic physics -- 8.7 References -- List of Authors -- Index -- Summary of Volume 2.