Advances in versatile GeTe thermoelectrics from materials to devices

M Hong, M Li, Y Wang, X Shi, ZG Chen - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Driven by the intensive efforts in the development of high‐performance GeTe
thermoelectrics for mass‐market application in power generation and refrigeration, GeTe …

High performance thermoelectric materials: progress and their applications

L Yang, ZG Chen, MS Dargusch… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) materials have the capability of converting heat into electricity, which
can improve fuel efficiency, as well as providing robust alternative energy supply in multiple …

Defect‐Engineering‐Stabilized AgSbTe2 with High Thermoelectric Performance

Y Zhang, Z Li, S Singh, A Nozariasbmarz… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric (TE) generators enable the direct and reversible conversion between heat
and electricity, providing applications in both refrigeration and power generation. In the last …

Compromise and synergy in high‐efficiency thermoelectric materials

T Zhu, Y Liu, C Fu, JP Heremans, JG Snyder… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades have witnessed the rapid growth of thermoelectric (TE) research.
Novel concepts and paradigms are described here that have emerged, targeting superior TE …

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) …

Chalcogenides by design: functionality through metavalent bonding and confinement

BJ Kooi, M Wuttig - Advanced materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A unified picture of different application areas for incipient metals is presented. This
unconventional material class includes several main‐group chalcogenides, such as GeTe …

Rhombohedral to cubic conversion of GeTe via MnTe alloying leads to ultralow thermal conductivity, electronic band convergence, and high thermoelectric …

Z Zheng, X Su, R Deng, C Stoumpos… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this study, a series of Ge1–x Mn x Te (x= 0–0.21) compounds were prepared by a melting–
quenching–annealing process combined with spark plasma sintering (SPS). The effect of …

New and old concepts in thermoelectric materials

JR Sootsman, DY Chung… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Herein we cover the key concepts in the field of thermoelectric materials research, present
the current understanding, and show the latest developments. Current research is aimed at …

Realizing the high thermoelectric performance of GeTe by Sb-doping and Se-alloying

J Li, X Zhang, S Lin, Z Chen, Y Pei - Chemistry of Materials, 2017 - ACS Publications
GeTe-based alloys have been intensively considered as p-type thermoelectrics for about 50
years, yet existing literature barely discussed the thermoelectric properties of pristine GeTe …

Research progress on polymer–inorganic thermoelectric nanocomposite materials

Y Du, SZ Shen, K Cai, PS Casey - Progress in Polymer Science, 2012 - Elsevier
A thermoelectric (TE) material is a material where a potential difference is generated as a
result of a temperature difference or the corollary of this where a temperature difference is …