Thermoelectric Performance of n-Type (PbTe)0.75(PbS)0.15(PbSe)0.1 Composites

S Aminorroaya Yamini, H Wang, D Ginting… - … applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Lead chalcogenides (PbQ, Q= Te, Se, S) have proved to possess high thermoelectric
efficiency for both n-type and p-type compounds. Recent success in tuning of electronic …

Superior thermoelectric performance in PbTe–PbS pseudo-binary: extremely low thermal conductivity and modulated carrier concentration

D Wu, LD Zhao, X Tong, W Li, L Wu, Q Tan… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Lead chalcogenides are dominant thermoelectric materials in the medium-temperature
range due to their highly favorable electronic band structures and low thermal conductivities …

Thermoelectric performance of tellurium-reduced quaternary p-type lead–chalcogenide composites

SA Yamini, H Wang, ZM Gibbs, Y Pei, DRG Mitchell… - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
A long-standing technological challenge to the widespread application of thermoelectric
generators is obtaining high-performance thermoelectric materials from abundant elements …

High thermoelectric performance in pseudo quaternary compounds of (PbTe) 0.95− x (PbSe) x (PbS) 0.05 by simultaneous band convergence and nano precipitation

D Ginting, CC Lin, R Lydia, HS So, H Lee, J Hwang… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Lead chalcogenides have long been studied as promising thermoelectric materials,
operating at the mid-temperature range of 500–950 K. Here, we studied thermoelectric …

High ZT in p-Type (PbTe)1–2x(PbSe)x(PbS)x Thermoelectric Materials

RJ Korkosz, TC Chasapis, S Lo, JW Doak… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Lead chalcogenide thermoelectric systems have been shown to reach record high figure of
merit values via modification of the band structure to increase the power factor or via …

High thermoelectric figure of merit in PbTe alloys demonstrated in PbTe–CdTe

Y Pei, AD LaLonde, NA Heinz… - Advanced Energy …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
PbTe alloys have been the most efficient materials for thermoelectric power generation since
the 1950s. In addition to the observed lattice thermal conductivity reduction by alloy …

Enhancing thermoelectric performance of n-type PbSe via additional meso-scale phonon scattering

X Qian, L Zheng, Y Xiao, C Chang… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The study of the lead chalcogenides system has been extended throughout the history of
thermoelectrics due to their extraordinary physical and chemical properties. Compared with …

High performance of n-type (PbS) 1-xy (PbSe) x (PbTe) y thermoelectric materials

M Zhao, C Chang, Y Xiao, LD Zhao - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2018 - Elsevier
Te-free PbS has been regarded as a promising alternative candidate for PbTe
thermoelectric materials due to its advances of low-cost, earth-abundant. In this work, we …

Enhancing thermoelectric performance of n-type PbSe through forming solid solution with PbTe and PbS

J Sun, X Su, Y Yan, W Liu, G Tan… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
As an inexpensive and earth abundant analogue of PbTe, PbSe has aroused growing
attention recently as advanced thermoelectric materials. In the present report, the effect of …

Chemical composition tuning in quaternary p-type Pb-chalcogenides–a promising strategy for enhanced thermoelectric performance

SA Yamini, H Wang, ZM Gibbs, Y Pei, SX Dou… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently a significant improvement in the thermoelectric performance of p-type ternary PbTe–
PbSe and PbTe–PbS systems has been realized through alternating the electronic band …