Advances in half-Heusler alloys for thermoelectric power generation

RJ Quinn, JWG Bos - Materials Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Half-Heusler alloys are leading candidate materials for large scale thermoelectric power
generation. In the past decade, substantial improvements have been made to the …

Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future

D Beretta, N Neophytou, JM Hodges… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily
available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the …

High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

ZG Chen, X Shi, LD Zhao, J Zou - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

Discovery of TaFeSb-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric performance

H Zhu, J Mao, Y Li, J Sun, Y Wang, Q Zhu, G Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Discovery of thermoelectric materials has long been realized by the Edisonian trial and error
approach. However, recent progress in theoretical calculations, including the ability to …

Discovery of ZrCoBi based half Heuslers with high thermoelectric conversion efficiency

H Zhu, R He, J Mao, Q Zhu, C Li, J Sun, W Ren… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting waste heat into electricity. The
dimensionless figure-of-merit (ZT), as the critical measure for the material's thermoelectric …

Realizing an excellent conversion efficiency of 14.5% in the Mg 3 Sb 2/GeTe-based thermoelectric module for waste heat recovery

X Li, C Chen, L Yin, X Wang, J Mao, F Cao… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Mg3Sb2-based thermoelectric materials are drawing significant attention due to their earth-
abundant elements and multiple conduction band structures. Alloying Mg3Bi2 in Mg3Sb2 …

DFT assessment on stabilities, electronic and thermal transport properties of CoZrSb1−xBix half-Heusler alloys and their superlattices

Y Rached, D Rached, H Rached, O Cheref… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Herein, an ab initio study was conducted to investigate the properties of CoZrSb1− x Bi x half-
Heusler alloys and their (CoZrSb) n/(CoZrBi) n superlattices. The structural stability revealed …

Double half-heuslers

S Anand, M Wood, Y Xia, C Wolverton, GJ Snyder - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Since their discovery around a century ago, multi-functional half-Heusler semiconductors
have been studied extensively as three-component systems (nominal formula XYZ) with …

Design of high‐performance disordered half‐Heusler thermoelectric materials using 18‐electron rule

Z Liu, S Guo, Y Wu, J Mao, Q Zhu, H Zhu… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary half‐Heusler (HH) alloys display intriguing functionalities ranging from
thermoelectric to magnetic and topological properties. For thermoelectric applications, stable …

Unveiling the phonon scattering mechanisms in half-Heusler thermoelectric compounds

R He, T Zhu, Y Wang, U Wolff, JC Jaud… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Half-Heusler (HH) compounds are among the most promising thermoelectric (TE) materials
for large-scale applications due to their superior properties such as high power factor …