Conventional PbTe-based semiconductors have been leading the developments in the
thermoelectrics community due to their rich capabilities in optimizing the electronic and …

Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion between waste heat and electric
energy, playing an important role in alleviating energy crisis. Many excellent thermoelectrics …

GeTe and its derivatives have recently attracted wide attention as promising thermoelectric
materials. The principle challenge in optimizing the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, is the …

The core effects of high entropy alloys distinguish high entropy alloying from ordinary
multielement doping, allowing for a synergy of band structure and microstructure …

Due to the intrinsically plentiful Sn vacancies, developing n-type SnTe thermoelectric
materials is a big challenge. Herein, n-type SnTe thermoelectric materials with remarkable …

Entropy is a physical quantity gauging the degree of chaos in the system. High entropy
alloying is thus an effective strategy to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity of the …

SnTe-based materials have been receiving increasing heed in the field of thermoelectrics
(TEs) because of their tunable electronic structure. Until now, only In and Bi are reported to …

Lead free SnTe with a tunable electronic structure has become the front runner in eco-
friendly thermoelectrics. Herein, we show through first-principles density functional theory …

In this work, a second n-type resonant dopant in the form of vanadium is introduced in the
SnTe thermoelectrics family. The electronic structure simulated using density functional …

Discovery of dopants which can engineer the electronic structure of the thermoelectric
materials beneficially to improve the figure of merit has been receiving a lot of attention. In …