Advances in versatile GeTe thermoelectrics from materials to devices

M Hong, M Li, Y Wang, X Shi, ZG Chen - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Driven by the intensive efforts in the development of high‐performance GeTe
thermoelectrics for mass‐market application in power generation and refrigeration, GeTe …

Thermoelectric materials and transport physics

N Jia, J Cao, XY Tan, J Dong, H Liu, CKI Tan, J Xu… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermoelectrics is attractive as a green and sustainable way for harnessing waste heat and
cooling applications. Designing high performance thermoelectrics involves navigating the …

Hierarchical architectural structures induce high performance in n‐type GeTe‐based thermoelectrics

DZ Wang, WD Liu, M Li, K Zheng, H Hu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Compatible p‐and n‐type materials are necessary for high‐performance GeTe
thermoelectric modules, where the n‐type counterparts are in urgent need. Here, it is …

High‐performance GeTe‐based thermoelectrics: from materials to devices

WD Liu, DZ Wang, Q Liu, W Zhou… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
High‐performance GeTe‐based thermoelectrics have been recently attracting growing
research interest. Here, an overview is presented of the structural and electronic band …

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 …

Decoupling carrier-phonon scattering boosts the thermoelectric performance of n-type GeTe-based materials

DZ Wang, WD Liu, Y Mao, S Li, LC Yin… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The coupled relationship between carrier and phonon scattering severely limits the
thermoelectric performance of n-type GeTe materials. Here, we provide an efficient strategy …

Cubic AgMnSbTe3 Semiconductor with a High Thermoelectric Performance

Y Luo, T Xu, Z Ma, D Zhang, Z Guo… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The reaction of MnTe with AgSbTe2 in an equimolar ratio (ATMS) provides a new
semiconductor, AgMnSbTe3. AgMnSbTe3 crystallizes in an average rock-salt NaCl structure …

Metavalent bonding origins of unusual properties of group IV chalcogenides

R Arora, UV Waghmare, CNR Rao - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A distinct type of metavalent bonding (MVB) is recently proposed to explain an unusual
combination of anomalous functional properties of group IV chalcogenide crystals, whose …

High Carrier Mobility and High Figure of Merit in the CuBiSe2 Alloyed GeTe

LC Yin, WD Liu, M Li, Q Sun, H Gao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
According to the Mott's relation, the figure‐of‐merit of a thermoelectric material depends on
the charge carrier concentration and carrier mobility. This explains the observation that low …