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 …

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 …

Enhancement of thermoelectric performance of Al doped PbTe-PbSe due to carrier concentration optimization and alloying

H Sun, B Cai, P Zhao, F Yu, L Zhang, D Yu… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Al doped PbTe-PbSe alloys were successfully prepared with high pressure
synthesis followed by spark plasma sintering. The incorporation of Se shows a dual effect on …

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 …

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 …

Synergistically optimizing carrier and phonon transport properties in n-type PbTe through I doping and SnSe alloying

W Liu, T Hong, S Dong, D Wang, X Gao, Y Xiao… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
PbTe is a promising thermoelectric material, but the properties in n-type PbTe need further
improvement to match its advanced p-type material. In this work, the thermoelectric …

Synergetic approach for superior thermoelectric performance in PbTe-PbSe-PbS quaternary alloys and composites

D Ginting, CC Lin, JS Rhyee - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Thermoelectric power generation is an energy conversion technology from heat to electric
energy, which can be applied to waste heat power conversion. Among thermoelectric …

High thermoelectric performance of n-type PbTe1− ySy due to deep lying states induced by indium doping and spinodal decomposition

Q Zhang, EK Chere, Y Wang, HS Kim, R He, F Cao… - Nano Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Good thermoelectric materials should have high engineering figure-of-merit (ZT) eng, not
peak ZT, to achieve high conversion efficiency. In this work, we achieved a good (ZT) eng by …

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 …