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 …

Defect engineering in thermoelectric materials: what have we learned?

Y Zheng, TJ Slade, L Hu, XY Tan, Y Luo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric energy conversion is an all solid-state technology that relies on exceptional
semiconductor materials that are generally optimized through sophisticated strategies …

Advances in half-Heusler alloys for thermoelectric power generation

RJ Quinn, JWG Bos - Materials Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Half-Heusler alloys are leading candidate materials for large scale thermoelectric power
generation. In the past decade, substantial improvements have been made to the …

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 …

Thermoelectric power generation: from new materials to devices

G Tan, M Ohta, MG Kanatzidis - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Thermoelectric technology offers the opportunity of direct conversion between heat and
electricity, and new and exciting materials that can enable this technology to deliver higher …

Mechanical properties of half-Heusler alloys

G Rogl, A Grytsiv, M Gürth, A Tavassoli, C Ebner… - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
As half-Heusler compounds are promising candidates for environmentally friendly and low-
cost thermoelectric materials, not only a high figure of merit and efficiency are necessary but …

Half-Heusler thermoelectric materials

K Xia, C Hu, C Fu, X Zhao, T Zhu - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Semiconducting half-Heusler compounds with the valence electron count of 18 have been
identified as a class of promising high-temperature thermoelectric materials. Recently …

High temperature Si–Ge alloy towards thermoelectric applications: A comprehensive review

R Basu, A Singh - Materials Today Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Silicon–Germanium is an excellent and well-proven alloy with wide application in the
transistor technology and space industries because of its meritorious features such as easy …

Ultralow lattice thermal conductivity and improved thermoelectric performance in a Hf-free half-Heusler compound modulated by entropy engineering

X Zhang, M Huang, H Li, J Chen, P Xu, B Xu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Half-Heusler compounds can potentially be applied to medium-to high-temperature power
generation. However, most of them have relatively high thermal conductivity, which is …

A valence balanced rule for discovery of 18-electron half-Heuslers with defects

S Anand, K Xia, VI Hegde, U Aydemir… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Using first-principles DFT we systematically investigate the thermodynamic stability and off-
stoichiometry in 108 nominal 19-electron half-Heusler (hH) compounds. We demonstrate …