Superior performance and high service stability for GeTe-based thermoelectric compounds

T Xing, Q Song, P Qiu, Q Zhang, X Xia… - National Science …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
GeTe-based compounds have been intensively studied recently due to their superior
thermoelectric performance, but their real applications are still limited so far due to the …

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 …

Tailoring the phase transition temperature to achieve high-performance cubic GeTe-based thermoelectrics

A Suwardi, J Cao, L Hu, F Wei, J Wu, Y Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe is highly sought-after due to its versatility as a high-performance thermoelectric
material and phase change material, as well as a ferroelectric Rashba semiconductor …

Achieving High Carrier Mobility And Thermal Stability in Plainified Rhombohedral GeTe Thermoelectric Materials with zT > 2

M Zhang, Z Gao, Q Lou, Q Zhu, J Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
GeTe is a very promising thermoelectric material, but the presence of massive intrinsic Ge
vacancies leads to an overhigh hole concentration and poor thermal stability. Counter …

Structural modulation and resonant level enable high thermoelectric performance of GeTe in the mid-to-low temperature range

G Wu, Z Guo, R Wang, X Tan, C Cui, P Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe has recently attracted wide attention as a promising mid-temperature thermoelectric
candidate, but the poor performance severely limits its practical application. Herein, we …

Boosting the thermoelectric performance of GeTe by manipulating the phase transition temperature via Sb doping

Y Jin, D Wang, Y Qiu, LD Zhao - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
It is well known that the thermoelectric performance of GeTe is difficult to manipulate due to
its intrinsic overhigh carrier concentration and phase transition. Herein, we demonstrate that …

Stabilizing the optimal carrier concentration in Al/Sb-codoped GeTe for high thermoelectric performance

X Wang, W Xue, Z Zhang, X Li, L Yin… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
GeTe is a promising thermoelectric material and has attracted growing research interest
recently. In this study, the effect of Al doping and Al&Sb codoping on the thermoelectric …

High thermoelectric and mechanical performance achieved by a hyperconverged electronic structure and low lattice thermal conductivity in GeTe through CuInTe 2 …

H Kim, SK Kihoi, US Shenoy, JN Kahiu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe-based thermoelectric materials have a very high hole carrier concentration (∼ 1021
cm− 3), and thus, improving the figure of merit, ZT, is substantially challenging. In this work …

Evolution of defect structures leading to high ZT in GeTe-based thermoelectric materials

Y Jiang, J Dong, HL Zhuang, J Yu, B Su, H Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
GeTe is a promising mid-temperature thermoelectric compound but inevitably contains
excessive Ge vacancies hindering its performance maximization. This work reveals that …

Realizing zT values of 2.0 in cubic GeTe

J Cao, SW Chien, XY Tan, CKI Tan, Q Zhu… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past two years, GeTe has quickly cemented its place as the best performing
thermoelectric material at a medium temperature range. The key factors behind the …