Lattice dynamics and thermoelectric properties of diamondoid materials

H Xie, LD Zhao, MG Kanatzidis - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The diamondoid compounds are a large family of important semiconductors, which possess
various unique transport properties and had been widely investigated in the fields of …

Slowing down the heat in thermoelectrics

B Qin, D Wang, LD Zhao - InfoMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heat transport has various applications in solid materials. In particular, the thermoelectric
technology provides an alternative approach to traditional methods for waste heat recovery …

High Thermoelectric Performance in the New Cubic Semiconductor AgSnSbSe3 by High-Entropy Engineering

Y Luo, S Hao, S Cai, TJ Slade, ZZ Luo… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We investigate the structural and physical properties of the AgSn m SbSe m+ 2 system with
m= 1–20 (ie, SnSe matrix and∼ 5–50% AgSbSe2) from atomic, nano, and macro length …

All-inorganic halide perovskites as potential thermoelectric materials: dynamic cation off-centering induces ultralow thermal conductivity

H Xie, S Hao, J Bao, TJ Slade, GJ Snyder… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Halide perovskites are anticipated to impact next generation high performance solar cells
because of their extraordinary charge transport and optoelectronic properties. However …

Silver atom off-centering in diamondoid solid solutions causes crystallographic distortion and suppresses lattice thermal conductivity

H Xie, Z Li, Y Liu, Y Zhang, C Uher… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The class I–III–VI2 diamondoid compounds with tetrahedral bonding are important
semiconductors widely applied in optoelectronics. Understanding their heat transport …

High thermoelectric performance enabled by convergence of nested conduction bands in Pb7Bi4Se13 with low thermal conductivity

L Hu, YW Fang, F Qin, X Cao, X Zhao, Y Luo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Thermoelectrics enable waste heat recovery, holding promises in relieving energy and
environmental crisis. Lillianite materials have been long-term ignored due to low …

High Thermoelectric Performance in Chalcopyrite Cu1–xAgxGaTe2–ZnTe: Nontrivial Band Structure and Dynamic Doping Effect

H Xie, Y Liu, Y Zhang, S Hao, Z Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The understanding of thermoelectric properties of ternary I–III–VI2 type (I= Cu, Ag; III= Ga, In;
and VI= Te) chalcopyrites is less well developed. Although their thermal transport properties …

High Thermoelectric Performance through Crystal Symmetry Enhancement in Triply Doped Diamondoid Compound Cu2SnSe3

L Hu, Y Luo, YW Fang, F Qin, X Cao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of high crystallographic symmetry and nanoscale defects are favorable for
thermoelectrics. With proper electronic structures, a highly symmetric crystal tends to …

Hidden local symmetry breaking in silver diamondoid compounds is root cause of ultralow thermal conductivity

H Xie, ES Bozin, Z Li, M Abeykoon… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Typically, conventional structure transitions occur from a low symmetry state to a higher
symmetry state upon warming. In this work, an unexpected local symmetry breaking in the …

Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Diamondoid Structures and High Thermoelectric Performance in (Cu1–xAgx)(In1–yGay)Te2

H Xie, S Hao, TP Bailey, S Cai, Y Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Owing to the diversity of composition and excellent transport properties, the ternary I–III–VI2
type diamond-like chalcopyrite compounds are attractive functional semiconductors …