Crystal structure and atomic vacancy optimized thermoelectric properties in gadolinium selenides

F Qin, SA Nikolaev, A Suwardi, M Wood… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric materials enable the energy conversion of waste heat into electricity, helpful
to relieve global energy crisis. Here, we report a systematic investigation on high …

Microstructural manipulation for enhanced average thermoelectric performance: a case study of tin telluride

X Xu, J Cui, Y Huang, J Xia, K Pan… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Achieving a high average figure of merit in a low-cost/toxic compound, tin telluride (SnTe), is
crucial for thermoelectric applications. Introducing gap-like structures into the rock–salt …

Germanium chalcogenide thermoelectrics: electronic structure modulation and low lattice thermal conductivity

S Roychowdhury, M Samanta, S Perumal… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric materials can convert untapped heat to electricity and are expected to have
an important role in future energy utilization. IV–VI metal chalcogenides are the most …

Glass-like electronic and thermal transport in crystalline cubic germanium selenide

M Yan, H Geng, P Jiang, X Bao - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric properties of orthorhombic or rhombohedral GeSe have attracted great
attention recently, with the rise of its structural analog SnSe. However, the p-type cubic GeSe …

Crystal symmetry enables high thermoelectric performance of rhombohedral GeSe (MnCdTe2) x

X Li, Z Liang, J Li, F Cheng, J He, C Zhang, J Li, F Liu… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
High symmetry favors high power factor by virtue of the balanced Seebeck coefficient and
carrier mobility, nonetheless, the role of crystal symmetry in enhancing the material's …

Effective enhancement of thermoelectric and mechanical properties of germanium telluride via rhenium-doping

A Suwardi, SH Lim, Y Zheng, X Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe as one of the most promising medium temperature thermoelectrics has progressed
leaps and bounds in recent years, largely thanks to a combination of its unique electronic …

Anionic regulation and valence band convergence boosting the thermoelectric performance of Se-alloyed GeSb2Te4 single crystal

P Chen, B Zhang, Z Zhou, S Zheng, D Zhang, Y Yan… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract GeSb 2 Te 4, a layer-structured pseudo-binary chalcogenide, is a promising
thermoelectric material with low lattice thermal conductivity ensured by the van de Waals …

Influence of a Nano Phase Segregation on the Thermoelectric Properties of the p-Type Doped Stannite Compound Cu2+xZn1–xGeSe4

WG Zeier, A LaLonde, ZM Gibbs… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Engineering nanostructure in bulk thermoelectric materials has recently been established as
an effective approach to scatter phonons, reducing the phonon mean free path, without …

Structure-Dependent Thermoelectric Properties of GeSe1–xTex (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.5)

Z Wang, H Wu, M Xi, H Zhu, L Dai… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
GeSe was theoretically predicted to have thermoelectric (TE) performance as high as SnSe.
However, the relatively high TE performance was not achieved experimentally in doped …

Lead-free SnTe-based thermoelectrics: enhancement of thermoelectric performance by doping with Gd/Ag

L Zhang, J Wang, Z Cheng, Q Sun, Z Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
SnTe, with the same rock-salt structure as PbTe, is a potentially attractive thermoelectric
material. Pristine SnTe has poor thermoelectric performance because of its very high hole …