The long-range periodic atomic arrangement or the lack thereof in solids typically dictates
the magnitude and temperature dependence of their lattice thermal conductivity (κlat) …

Structural disorder, highly effective in reducing thermal conductivity, is important in
technological applications such as thermal barrier coatings and thermoelectrics. In …

Thermoelectric power, has been extensively studied in low‐dimensional materials where
quantum confinement and spin textures can largely modulate thermopower generation. In …

Chalcogenide semiconductors and semimetals continue to be of prime interest for
thermoelectric applications in power generation. As another representative of this broad …

Chalcogenide semiconductors continue to be of prime interest for designing novel efficient
materials for energy-conversion applications. Among them, the narrow-band-gap p-type …

Chalcogenide semiconductors and semimetals are a fertile class of efficient thermoelectric
materials, which, in most cases, exhibit very low lattice thermal conductivity κ ph despite …

Recently, intriguing physical properties have been unraveled in anisotropic semiconductors
in which the in-plane electronic band structure anisotropy often originates from the low …

The new rising binary InTe displays advantageously high electronic conductivity and low
thermal conductivity along the [110] direction, providing a high potential of texture …

The nature of the interaction between magnetism and topology in magnetic topological
semimetals remains mysterious, but may be expected to lead to a variety of novel physics …

Here, using the ultrafast optical pump-probe spectroscopy, we have studied the
quasiparticle dynamics in the type-II Dirac semimetal NiTe 2. Anomalous dynamic optical …