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 …

Insights into low thermal conductivity in inorganic materials for thermoelectrics

T Ghosh, M Dutta, D Sarkar… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Efficient manipulation of thermal conductivity and fundamental understanding of the
microscopic mechanisms of phonon scattering in crystalline solids are crucial to achieve …

Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2

S Roychowdhury, T Ghosh, R Arora, M Samanta, L Xie… - Science, 2021 - science.org
High thermoelectric performance is generally achieved through either electronic structure
modulations or phonon scattering enhancements, which often counteract each other. A leap …

GeTe thermoelectrics

X Zhang, Z Bu, S Lin, Z Chen, W Li, Y Pei - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
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) …

Promising and Eco‐Friendly Cu2X‐Based Thermoelectric Materials: Progress and Applications

WD Liu, L Yang, ZG Chen, J Zou - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the nature of their liquid‐like behavior and high dimensionless figure of merit, Cu2X
(X= Te, Se, and S)‐based thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive attention. The …

High‐performance GeTe‐based thermoelectrics: from materials to devices

WD Liu, DZ Wang, Q Liu, W Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
High‐performance GeTe‐based thermoelectrics have been recently attracting growing
research interest. Here, an overview is presented of the structural and electronic band …

Key properties of inorganic thermoelectric materials—tables (version 1)

R Freer, D Ekren, T Ghosh, K Biswas… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents tables of key thermoelectric properties, which define thermoelectric
conversion efficiency, for a wide range of inorganic materials. The twelve families of …

Review of experimental approaches for improving zT of thermoelectric materials

Z Ma, J Wei, P Song, M Zhang, L Yang, J Ma… - Materials Science in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past years, various work has been devoted to improving the thermoelectric figure of
merit zT, and remarkable advances have been achieved. In 2019, an abnormal zT value …

Medium-temperature thermoelectric GeTe: vacancy suppression and band structure engineering leading to high performance

J Dong, FH Sun, H Tang, J Pei, HL Zhuang… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe is a promising thermoelectric material at medium temperature, but its carrier
concentration tends to go beyond the optimal range for thermoelectrics. This work realized a …

All-inorganic halide perovskites as potential thermoelectric materials: dynamic cation off-centering induces ultralow thermal conductivity

H Xie, S Hao, J Bao, TJ Slade, GJ Snyder… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Halide perovskites are anticipated to impact next generation high performance solar cells
because of their extraordinary charge transport and optoelectronic properties. However …