Thermoelectric materials and transport physics

N Jia, J Cao, XY Tan, J Dong, H Liu, CKI Tan, J Xu… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermoelectrics is attractive as a green and sustainable way for harnessing waste heat and
cooling applications. Designing high performance thermoelectrics involves navigating the …

Routes for advancing SnTe thermoelectrics

Z Chen, X Guo, F Zhang, Q Shi, M Tang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional PbTe-based semiconductors have been leading the developments in the
thermoelectrics community due to their rich capabilities in optimizing the electronic and …

Physical Insights on the Lattice Softening Driven Mid‐Temperature Range Thermoelectrics of Ti/Zr‐Inserted SnTe—An Outlook Beyond the Horizons of Conventional …

AR Muchtar, B Srinivasan… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the best known SnTe‐based materials exhibit an attractive thermoelectric figure of
merit (zT) only at the high‐temperature regime, but their performance at the low‐mid …

Tailoring the phase transition temperature to achieve high-performance cubic GeTe-based thermoelectrics

A Suwardi, J Cao, L Hu, F Wei, J Wu, Y Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe is highly sought-after due to its versatility as a high-performance thermoelectric
material and phase change material, as well as a ferroelectric Rashba semiconductor …

Bottom-up engineering strategies for high-performance thermoelectric materials

Q Zhu, S Wang, X Wang, A Suwardi, MH Chua… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
The recent advancements in thermoelectric materials are largely credited to two factors,
namely established physical theories and advanced materials engineering methods. The …

Achieving high thermoelectric quality factor toward high figure of merit in GeTe

A Suwardi, J Cao, Y Zhao, J Wu, SW Chien… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, GeTe has received tremendous attention from the research community
owing to its favorable electronic and thermal properties which make it one of the best …

Suppressing Ge-vacancies to achieve high single-leg efficiency in GeTe with an ultra-high room temperature power factor

N Jia, J Cao, XY Tan, J Zheng, SW Chien… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe is among the best medium-temperature thermoelectrics. Its high performance
originates from band convergence at the phase transition and low lattice thermal …

Biomimetic Approach to Facilitate the High Filler Content in Free-Standing and Flexible Thermoelectric Polymer Composite Films Based on PVDF and Ag2Se …

H Zhou, Z Zhang, C Sun, H Deng… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A high filler content is often needed in polymer composite-based thermoelectric (TE) films to
improve their performance. Nevertheless, this often leads to poor processability and poor …

Effective enhancement of thermoelectric and mechanical properties of germanium telluride via rhenium-doping

A Suwardi, SH Lim, Y Zheng, X Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe as one of the most promising medium temperature thermoelectrics has progressed
leaps and bounds in recent years, largely thanks to a combination of its unique electronic …

Mechanical alloying boosted SnTe thermoelectrics

Z Chen, Q Sun, F Zhang, J Mao, Y Chen, M Li… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
The well converged transporting valence bands in SnTe-MnTe alloys ensures a superior
electronic performance, while their thermal transport properties still need to be further …