Insights into low thermal conductivity in inorganic materials for thermoelectrics

T Ghosh, M Dutta, D Sarkar… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Efficient manipulation of thermal conductivity and fundamental understanding of the
microscopic mechanisms of phonon scattering in crystalline solids are crucial to achieve …

Review of experimental approaches for improving zT of thermoelectric materials

Z Ma, J Wei, P Song, M Zhang, L Yang, J Ma… - Materials Science in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past years, various work has been devoted to improving the thermoelectric figure of
merit zT, and remarkable advances have been achieved. In 2019, an abnormal zT value …

Power generation and thermoelectric cooling enabled by momentum and energy multiband alignments

B Qin, D Wang, X Liu, Y Qin, JF Dong, J Luo, JW Li… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials transfer heat and electrical energy, hence they are useful for power
generation or cooling applications. Many of these materials have narrow bandgaps …

Key properties of inorganic thermoelectric materials—tables (version 1)

R Freer, D Ekren, T Ghosh, K Biswas… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents tables of key thermoelectric properties, which define thermoelectric
conversion efficiency, for a wide range of inorganic materials. The twelve families of …

Improved solubility in metavalently bonded solid leads to band alignment, ultralow thermal conductivity, and high thermoelectric performance in SnTe

Y Liu, X Zhang, P Nan, B Zou, Q Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
SnTe is an emerging Pb‐free thermoelectric compound that has drawn significant attention
for clean energy conversion. Chemical do** is routinely used to tailor its charge carrier …

Retarding Ostwald ripening through Gibbs adsorption and interfacial complexions leads to high-performance SnTe thermoelectrics

D An, J Wang, J Zhang, X Zhai, Z Kang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoprecipitation is a routine method to decrease the thermal conductivity for advancing
thermoelectric performance. However, the coarsening/Ostwald ripening of precipitates under …

All-scale hierarchical nanostructures and superior valence band convergence lead to ultra-high thermoelectric performance in cubic GeTe

D Sarkar, M Samanta, T Ghosh, K Dolui… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
GeTe is among the most fascinating inorganic compounds for thermoelectric (TE)
conversion of waste heat into electricity. However, the TE performance in its ambient …

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 …

Exceptionally high average power factor and thermoelectric figure of merit in n-type PbSe by the dual incorporation of Cu and Te

C Zhou, Y Yu, YL Lee, B Ge, W Lu… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric materials with high average power factor and thermoelectric figure of merit
(ZT) has been a sought-after goal. Here, we report new n-type thermoelectric system Cu x …

Nanoengineering of tin monosulfide (SnS)‐based structures for emerging applications

Y Zi, J Zhu, L Hu, M Wang, W Huang - Small Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, tin monosulfide (SnS), one kind of black phosphorus analogues, is of great
interest owing to its unique properties, such as low cost, environmental compatibility …