Advanced thermoelectric design: from materials and structures to devices

XL Shi, J Zou, ZG Chen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The long-standing popularity of thermoelectric materials has contributed to the creation of
various thermoelectric devices and stimulated the development of strategies to improve their …

High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

ZG Chen, X Shi, LD Zhao, J Zou - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and
environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a …

High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling

L Su, D Wang, S Wang, B Qin, Y Wang, Y Qin, Y **… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Thermoelectric materials allow for direct conversion between heat and electricity, offering
the potential for power generation. The average dimensionless figure of merit ZT ave …

3D charge and 2D phonon transports leading to high out-of-plane ZT in n-type SnSe crystals

C Chang, M Wu, D He, Y Pei, CF Wu, X Wu, H Yu… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Thermoelectric technology enables the harvest of waste heat and its direct conversion into
electricity. The conversion efficiency is determined by the materials figure of merit ZT. Here …

The physical significance of imaginary phonon modes in crystals

I Pallikara, P Kayastha, JM Skelton… - Electronic …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The lattice vibrations (phonon modes) of crystals underpin a large number of material
properties. The harmonic phonon spectrum of a solid is the simplest description of its …

Realizing high thermoelectric performance in p-type SnSe through crystal structure modification

B Qin, D Wang, W He, Y Zhang, H Wu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The simple binary compound SnSe has been reported as a robust thermoelectric material
for energy conversion by showing strong anharmonicity and multiple electronic valence …

General strategies to improve thermoelectric performance with an emphasis on tin and germanium chalcogenides as thermoelectric materials

M Rakshit, D Jana, D Banerjee - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric (TE) materials have attracted tremendous research interests over the past
few decades, due to their application in power generation technology from waste heat …

Extended anharmonic collapse of phonon dispersions in SnS and SnSe

T Lanigan-Atkins, S Yang, JL Niedziela… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The lattice dynamics and high-temperature structural transition in SnS and SnSe are
investigated via inelastic neutron scattering, high-resolution Raman spectroscopy and …

Phonon collapse and second-order phase transition in thermoelectric SnSe

U Aseginolaza, R Bianco, L Monacelli, L Paulatto… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Since 2014 the layered semiconductor SnSe in the high-temperature C mcm phase is
known to be the most efficient intrinsic thermoelectric material. Making use of first-principles …

The thermoelectric properties of SnSe continue to surprise: extraordinary electron and phonon transport

C Chang, G Tan, J He, MG Kanatzidis… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermoelectric technology enables the harvest of waste heat and its direct conversion into
electricity. Most well-developed strategies aimed at enhancing thermoelectric performance …