Half-Heusler alloys are leading candidate materials for large scale thermoelectric power
generation. In the past decade, substantial improvements have been made to the …

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

Driven by the ability to harvest waste heat into reusable electricity and the exclusive role of
serving as the power generator for deep spacecraft, intensive endeavors are dedicated to …

Thermoelectric (TE) devices emerge as an important renewable energy source with great
potential to take advancement of the widely-abundant and normally-wasted thermal energy …

Introducing structural defects such as vacancies, nanoprecipitates, and dislocations is a
proven means of reducing lattice thermal conductivity. However, these defects tend to be …

Ternary half‐Heusler (HH) alloys display intriguing functionalities ranging from
thermoelectric to magnetic and topological properties. For thermoelectric applications, stable …

Accurate determination of the intrinsic electronic structure of thermoelectric materials is a
prerequisite for utilizing an electronic band engineering strategy to improve their …

Compositional tailoring enables fine-tuning of thermoelectric (TE) transport parameters by
synergistic modulation of electronic and vibrational properties. In the present work, the …

Half-Heusler phases (space group F 4¯ 3 m, C1b) have recently captured much attention as
promising thermoelectric materials for heat-to-electric power conversion in the mid-to-high …

A thermoelectric converter (TEC), an array of thermocouples composed of p-type and n-type
semiconducting elements, directly converting heat to electricity, is subjected to large …