Alloying to increase the band gap for improving thermoelectric properties of Ag 2 Te

Y Pei, NA Heinz, GJ Snyder - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Ag2Te simultaneously shows high mobility and low thermal conductivity, however the
relatively low band gap of∼ 0.2 eV prevents it from achieving high thermoelectric figure of …

Reproducible high thermoelectric figure of merit in Ag2Se

N Jakhar, DK Kedia, A Kumar, K Saurabh… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Ag2Se is a potentially useful material with interesting magnetoresistive and thermoelectric
properties. In several recent studies, the thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) of Ag2Se has …

Thermoelectric and thermal stability improvements in Nano-Cu2Se included Ag2Se

S Ballikaya, Y Oner, T Temel, B Ozkal, TP Bailey… - Journal of Solid State …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, silver chalcogenides have attracted great attention due to their potential
application for room temperature power generation and local cooling. In this work, we report …

Ultra-high thermoelectric power factors in narrow gap materials with asymmetric bands

P Graziosi, N Neophytou - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
We theoretically unveil the unconventional possibility of achieving extremely high
thermoelectric power factors in lightly doped narrow gap semiconductors with asymmetric …

Temperature-induced first-order electronic topological transition in β-Ag2Se

LS Sharath Chandra, SK Ramjan, S Banik… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
β-Ag 2 Se is a promising material for room temperature thermoelectric applications and
magneto-resistive sensors. However, no attention was paid earlier to the hysteresis in the …