Advancing flexible thermoelectrics for integrated electronics

XL Shi, L Wang, W Lyu, T Cao, W Chen, B Hu… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
With the increasing demand for energy and the climate challenges caused by the
consumption of traditional fuels, there is an urgent need to accelerate the adoption of green …

[HTML][HTML] Ferroelectric or non-ferroelectric: Why so many materials exhibit “ferroelectricity” on the nanoscale

RK Vasudevan, N Balke, P Maksymovych… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Ferroelectric materials have remained one of the major focal points of condensed matter
physics and materials science for over 50 years. In the last 20 years, the development of …

Subatomic deformation driven by vertical piezoelectricity from CdS ultrathin films

X Wang, X He, H Zhu, L Sun, W Fu, X Wang… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Driven by the development of high-performance piezoelectric materials, actuators become
an important tool for positioning objects with high accuracy down to nanometer scale, and …

Origin of the Order–Disorder Transition and the Associated Anomalous Change of Thermopower in AgBiS2 Nanocrystals: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical …

SN Guin, S Banerjee, D Sanyal, SK Pati… - Inorganic …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Bulk AgBiS2 crystallizes in a trigonal crystal structure (space group, P 3̅ m 1) at room
temperature, which transforms to a cation disordered rock salt structure (space group, Fm 3̅ …

Advances and Challenges of AgSbSe2‐based Thermoelectric Materials

J Cui, X Tang, G Tan - ChemNanoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric materials have aroused wide attention because of the capability to directly
convert heat into electricity. AgSbSe2 is a structural analogue of PbTe but does not contain …

Controlling phonon lifetimes via sublattice disordering in

JL Niedziela, D Bansal, J Ding, T Lanigan-Atkins… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Understanding and controlling microscopic heat transfer mechanisms in solids is critical to
material design in numerous technological applications. Yet, the current understanding of …

Colloidal AgSbSe 2 nanocrystals: Surface analysis, electronic doping and processing into thermoelectric nanomaterials

Y Liu, D Cadavid, M Ibánez, J De Roo… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a high-yield and scalable colloidal synthesis to produce monodisperse
AgSbSe2 nanocrystals (NCs). Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, we …

[HTML][HTML] Local ferroelectricity in thermoelectric SnTe above room temperature driven by competing phonon instabilities and soft resonant bonding

L Aggarwal, A Banik, S Anand, UV Waghmare… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
We report direct observation of local ferroelectric ordering above room temperature in
rocksalt SnTe, which is a topological crystalline insulator and a good thermoelectric material …

Sodium bismuth dichalcogenides: candidates for ferroelectric high-mobility semiconductors for multifunctional applications

T Zhong, M Pan, G Gao, H Fu, M Wu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of ferroelectricity with narrow-gap high-mobility semiconductors may not
only entail both functions of nonvolatile memory and efficient manipulation of signals, but …

Manipulation of Rashba splitting and thermoelectric performance of MTe (M= Ge, Sn, Pb) via Te off-centering distortion

T Wang, K Hu, X Duan, J Zhang, JY Yang, L Liu - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The Rashba effect is an essential phenomenon in asymmetrical ferroelectric materials with
local dipole fields. Rashba spin splitting due to spin–orbit coupling in the asymmetrical 2D …