Recently, the quaternary system PbTe–PbSe–PbS has been shown to provide high
thermoelectric efficiency, z T. The intent of this research is to investigate the thermoelectric …

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 …

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 …

Lead chalcogenides are dominant thermoelectric materials in the medium-temperature
range due to their highly favorable electronic band structures and low thermal conductivities …

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 …

Thermoelectric power generation is an energy conversion technology from heat to electric
energy, which can be applied to waste heat power conversion. Among thermoelectric …

PbSe is an inexpensive alternative for PbTe as a mid-temperature thermoelectric material,
but few investigations have been reported about its intrinsic properties despite recent efforts …

Simple chemical compositions are more suitable for practical applications of thermoelectric
materials due to the high success rates of their syntheses and their higher stabilities. Here, n …

The n-type PbTe still maintains relatively low thermoelectric performance compared with its
p-type counterpart. Thus, to promote its performance in n-type PbTe, we conduct successive …

Solid solution alloying is one of the quite powerful approaches to enhance thermoelectric
performance because it can simultaneously optimize electrical and thermal transport …