Thermoelectric generators, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, hold great
promise for tackling the ever-increasing energy sustainability issue. The thermoelectric …

High‐performance GeTe‐based thermoelectrics have been recently attracting growing
research interest. Here, an overview is presented of the structural and electronic band …

Although GeTe has been known as thermoelectrics since 1960s, it has attracted intensive
renewed attention recently. GeTe undergoes a phase transition from a high-T cubic (c-GeTe) …

High-symmetry thermoelectric materials usually have the advantage of very high band
degeneracy, while low-symmetry thermoelectrics have the advantage of very low lattice …

GeTe and its derivatives have recently attracted wide attention as promising thermoelectric
materials. The principle challenge in optimizing the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, is the …

As an emission-free energy conversion technology, thermoelectric technology has been
considered an essential component in solving the global energy crisis. Carbon allotrope …

Optimization of carrier concentration plays an important role on maximizing thermoelectric
performance. Existing efforts mainly focus on aliovalent doping, while intrinsic defects (eg …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of atomic structures, compositions, and
associated versatility of properties. Furthermore, for a given composition, a variety of …

Laser‐assisted field evaporation is studied in a large number of compounds, including
amorphous and crystalline phase change materials employing atom probe tomography. This …

High thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, of∼ 1.85 at 725 K along with significant cyclable
temperature stability was achieved in Pb-free p-type Ge1–x Sb x Te samples through …