Advances in thermoelectrics

J Mao, Z Liu, J Zhou, H Zhu, Q Zhang, G Chen… - Advances in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Thermoelectric generators, capable of directly converting heat into electricity, hold great
promise for tackling the ever-increasing energy sustainability issue. The thermoelectric …

Topological semimetals predicted from first-principles calculations

H Weng, X Dai, Z Fang - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We have given a summary on our theoretical predictions of three kinds of topological
semimetals (TSMs), namely, Dirac semimetal (DSM), Weyl semimetal (WSM) and node-line …

Topological quantum materials from the viewpoint of chemistry

N Kumar, SN Guin, K Manna, C Shekhar… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly
transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and …

Topological insulators for thermoelectrics

N Xu, Y Xu, J Zhu - npj Quantum Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Topological insulators demonstrate tremendous potential in fields of electronics and
magnetism for their unique boundary states that are topologically protected against …

Thermal properties of two dimensional layered materials

Y Wang, N Xu, D Li, J Zhu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of graphene has motivated intensive investigation into other two‐dimensional
layered materials (2DLMs). In addition to their superior optical, electrical, and mechanical …

Thermoelectrics of nanowires

R Chen, J Lee, W Lee, D Li - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The field of thermoelectric research has undergone a renaissance and boom in the past two
and a half decades, largely fueled by the prospect of engineering electronic and phononic …

Spin orbit coupling induced enhancement of thermoelectric performance of HfX2 (X= S, Se) and its Janus monolayer

J Bera, A Betal, S Sahu - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021 - Elsevier
Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) plays a vital role in transporting carriers under external
electric field or strain in two-dimensional transition metal di-chalcogenides in the absence of …

Controllable growth of layered selenide and telluride heterostructures and superlattices using molecular beam epitaxy

S Vishwanath, X Liu, S Rouvimov, L Basile… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Layered materials are an actively pursued area of research for realizing highly scaled
technologies involving both traditional device structures as well as new physics. Lately, non …

Strain induced valley degeneracy: a route to the enhancement of thermoelectric properties of monolayer WS 2

J Bera, S Sahu - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides show great potential as promising
thermoelectric materials due to their lower dimensionality, the unique density of states and …

First-principles calculation of magnetic, structural, dynamic, electronic, elastic, thermodynamic and thermoelectric properties of Co2ZrZ (Z= Al, Si) Heusler alloys

SS Essaoud, AS Jbara - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Electronic, magnetic, dynamic, elastic, thermodynamic, and thermoelectric
properties for Co 2-based full Heusler alloys are investigated theoretically. The full potential …