Advanced thermoelectric design: from materials and structures to devices

XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

Thermodynamic routes to ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance

PC Wei, CN Liao, HJ Wu, D Yang, J He… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) research is not only a course of materials by discovery but also a
seedbed of novel concepts and methodologies. Herein, the focus is on recent advances in …

Compositional fluctuations locked by athermal transformation yielding high thermoelectric performance in GeTe

YF Tsai, PC Wei, L Chang, KK Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phase transition in thermoelectric (TE) material is a double‐edged sword—it is undesired for
device operation in applications, but the fluctuations near an electronic instability are …

[HTML][HTML] Extended anharmonic collapse of phonon dispersions in SnS and SnSe

T Lanigan-Atkins, S Yang, JL Niedziela… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The lattice dynamics and high-temperature structural transition in SnS and SnSe are
investigated via inelastic neutron scattering, high-resolution Raman spectroscopy and …

[HTML][HTML] Tin-selenide as a futuristic material: properties and applications

M Kumar, S Rani, Y Singh, KS Gour, VN Singh - RSC advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
SnSe/SnSe2 is a promising versatile material with applications in various fields like solar
cells, photodetectors, memory devices, lithium and sodium-ion batteries, gas sensing …

Phase transformation contributions to heat capacity and impact on thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity, and thermoelectric performance

MT Agne, PW Voorhees, GJ Snyder - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The accurate characterization of thermal conductivity κ, particularly at high temperature, is of
paramount importance to many materials, thermoelectrics in particular. The ease and access …

Anisotropic thermoelectric figure-of-merit in Mg3Sb2

F Meng, S Sun, J Ma, C Chronister, J He, W Li - Materials Today Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
In view of the tensor nature of thermoelectric (TE) figure of merit ZT, the lack of experimental
data on its anisotropic transport properties, and the recent advances in theoretical modeling …

Effect of four-phonon interaction on phonon thermal conductivity and mean-free-path spectrum of high-temperature phase SnSe

W Zhou, Y Dai, J Zhang, B Song, TH Liu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The phonon thermal conductivity and mean-free-path (MFP) spectrum of high-temperature
phase SnSe (β-SnSe) are studied using the Boltzmann transport equation and ab initio …

Metavalent Bonding in Cubic SnSe Alloys Improves Thermoelectric Properties over a Broad Temperature Range

N Lin, S Han, T Ghosh, CF Schön, D Kim… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Monocrystalline SnSe is one of the most promising thermoelectric materials with outstanding
performance and a high abundance of constituting elements. However, polycrystalline …

Intrinsic low thermal conductivity and phonon renormalization due to strong anharmonicity of single-crystal tin selenide

JS Kang, H Wu, M Li, Y Hu - Nano letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals material tin selenide (SnSe) has recently attracted
intensive interest due to its exceptional thermoelectric performance. However, the thermal …