GeTe and its derivatives constituting Pb-free elements have been well known as potential
thermoelectric materials for the last five decades, which offer paramount technological …

The microstructure-dependent thermal transport property has drawn significant attention in
the thermoelectric community for elevating thermoelectric performance. In this work, we …

The amalgamation of multi-subjects often elicits novel materials, new concepts and
unexpected applications. Recently, Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5, as the most established phase-change …

Cubic β-GeTe alloys are apt to hoist the conversion efficiency for mid-temperature
thermoelectric (TE) generators with their remarkably high peak figure-of-merit (zT) values at …

Chemical doping is an indispensable means of improving the performance of thermoelectric
materials, while one bottleneck for maximizing optimization is the low solubility of dopants …

Thermoelectric materials enable direct conversion between thermal and electrical energy
and provide a viable route for power generation and electric refrigeration. In this paper, we …

Manipulation of crystal symmetry is an important strategy to tune the thermoelectric
performance. High-symmetry thermoelectric materials benefit from high band degeneracy …

Lead-free GeTe-based thermoelectric (TE) materials are most promising candidates to
replace the environmentally harmful PbTe for TE application at middle temperature range …

GeTe has recently attracted wide attention as a promising mid-temperature thermoelectric
candidate, but the poor performance severely limits its practical application. Herein, we …

Owing to the moderate energy offset between light and heavy band edges of the rock‐salt
structured GeTe, its figure‐of‐merit (ZT) can be enhanced by the rational manipulation of …