Defect engineering in thermoelectric materials: what have we learned?

Y Zheng, TJ Slade, L Hu, XY Tan, Y Luo… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoelectric energy conversion is an all solid-state technology that relies on exceptional
semiconductor materials that are generally optimized through sophisticated strategies …

Ag2Q‐Based (Q = S, Se, Te) Silver Chalcogenide Thermoelectric Materials

TR Wei, P Qiu, K Zhao, X Shi, L Chen - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoelectric technology provides a promising solution to sustainable energy utilization
and scalable power supply. Recently, Ag2Q‐based (Q= S, Se, Te) silver chalcogenides …

Enhanced atomic ordering leads to high thermoelectric performance in AgSbTe2

S Roychowdhury, T Ghosh, R Arora, M Samanta, L **e… - Science, 2021 - science.org
High thermoelectric performance is generally achieved through either electronic structure
modulations or phonon scattering enhancements, which often counteract each other. A leap …

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 …

Ductile P‐Type AgCu (Se, S, Te) Thermoelectric Materials

K Shen, Q Yang, P Qiu, Z Zhou, S Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ductile inorganic thermoelectric (TE) materials open a new approach to develop high‐
performance flexible TE devices. N‐type Ag2 (S, Se, Te) and p‐type AgCu (Se, S, Te) …

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 …

Thermoelectric silver‐based chalcogenides

SY Tee, D Ponsford, CL Lay, X Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Heat is abundantly available from various sources including solar irradiation, geothermal
energy, industrial processes, automobile exhausts, and from the human body and other …

High Thermoelectric Performance in the New Cubic Semiconductor AgSnSbSe3 by High-Entropy Engineering

Y Luo, S Hao, S Cai, TJ Slade, ZZ Luo… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We investigate the structural and physical properties of the AgSn m SbSe m+ 2 system with
m= 1–20 (ie, SnSe matrix and∼ 5–50% AgSbSe2) from atomic, nano, and macro length …

Engineering ferroelectric instability to achieve ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in Sn 1− x Ge x Te

A Banik, T Ghosh, R Arora, M Dutta, J Pandey… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
High thermoelectric performance of a crystalline solid requires it to have low thermal
conductivity which is one of the utmost material challenges. Herein, we demonstrate how the …

Thermoelectric Performance of the 2D Bi2Si2Te6 Semiconductor

Y Luo, Z Ma, S Hao, S Cai, ZZ Luo… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bi2Si2Te6, a 2D compound, is a direct band gap semiconductor with an optical band gap
of∼ 0.25 eV, and is a promising thermoelectric material. Single-phase Bi2Si2Te6 is …