Driven by the intensive efforts in the development of high‐performance GeTe
thermoelectrics for mass‐market application in power generation and refrigeration, GeTe …

Conspectus The ever-growing energy crisis and the deteriorated environment caused by
carbon energy consumption motivate the exploitation of alternative green and sustainable …

Metavalent bonding is a unique bonding mechanism responsible for exceptional properties
of materials used in thermoelectric, phase-change, and optoelectronic devices. For …

Composite engineering favors high thermoelectric performance by tuning the carrier and
phonon transport. Herein, orthorhombic and rhombohedral dual‐phase GeSe are designed …

The carrier concentration in n‐type layered Bi2Te3‐based thermoelectric (TE) material is
significantly impacted by the donor‐like effect, which would be further intensified by the …

Alloying SnTe with a well-designed secondary phase, particularly one with low lattice
thermal conductivity, serves as an efficient route to realize excellent thermoelectric …

Numerous intrinsic Ge vacancies in thermoelectric GeTe not only lead to overhigh carrier
concentration but also seriously deteriorate carrier mobility, which shackles its …

Abstract Loosely bonded (“rattling”) atoms with s2 lone pair electrons are usually associated
with strong anharmonicity and unexpectedly low thermal conductivity, yet their detailed …

As a highly promising thermoelectric material in the mid‐temperature region, pristine GeTe
shows deteriorated thermoelectric properties due to the low Seebeck coefficient and the …

The modification of the electronic band structure is of critical importance for thermoelectric
materials whose heat to electricity power generation is related to carrier effective mass and …