• Realization of the entire process chain, from synthesis of the material to development of test demonstration models
• 2014 North Rhine-Westphalia Innovation Award for the development of thermoelectric generators made from nanostructured silicon (awarded to Dr.-Ing. Gabi Schierning)
• 2012 InnoMateria Award for the first thermoelectric generator made from nano-silicon (UDE, IUTA, SLV)

Thermoelectric research extends across a wide range of disci­plines at UDE, ranging from chemistry and process engineering to physics and electrical engineering. While the Chemistry Department works to develop new organometallic precursors for clean synthesis of thermoelectric materials, the Process Engineer­ing Department focuses on researching synthesis process­es that can be scaled for industrial application and on the refinement of nanomaterials. The Physics Department focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of heat propagation within nanoscale materials and on the theoretical description of thermoelectric processes in materials. The Electrical Engineering Department is responsible for the thermoelectric character­ization of materials and for design­ing and building test generators made from these materials.

• Prof. Dr. Horn-von Hoegen (experimental study of heat dispersion alongboundary surfaces)
• Dr.-Ing. Gabi Schierning (materials characterization and generator development)
• Prof. Dr. Roland Schmechel (thermoelectric characterization and generator designs)
• Prof. Dr. Stephan Schulz (synthesis of metal organic precursors for nanostructured materials via solution and gas-phase based processes)
• Dr. Hartmut Wiggers (gas-phase synthesis of nanoparticles)
• Prof. Dr. Markus Winterer (gas-phase synthesis and sintering of oxides)
• Prof. Dr. Dietrich Wolf (simulation of thermoelectric transport processes)
• Dr. Nicolas Wöhrl (deposition of doped nanocrystalline diamond)