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 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 …

Promising and Eco‐Friendly Cu2X‐Based Thermoelectric Materials: Progress and Applications

WD Liu, L Yang, ZG Chen, J Zou - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the nature of their liquid‐like behavior and high dimensionless figure of merit, Cu2X
(X= Te, Se, and S)‐based thermoelectric materials have attracted extensive attention. The …

Exceptional figure of merit achieved in boron-dispersed GeTe-based thermoelectric composites

Y Jiang, B Su, J Yu, Z Han, H Hu, HL Zhuang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
GeTe is a promising p-type material with increasingly enhanced thermoelectric properties
reported in recent years, demonstrating its superiority for mid-temperature applications. In …

Realization of high thermoelectric figure of merit in GeTe by complementary co-do** of Bi and In

S Perumal, M Samanta, T Ghosh, US Shenoy… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
GeTe and its derivatives have recently attracted wide attention as promising thermoelectric
materials. The principle challenge in optimizing the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, is the …

Physical Insights on the Lattice Softening Driven Mid‐Temperature Range Thermoelectrics of Ti/Zr‐Inserted SnTe—An Outlook Beyond the Horizons of Conventional …

AR Muchtar, B Srinivasan… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the best known SnTe‐based materials exhibit an attractive thermoelectric figure of
merit (zT) only at the high‐temperature regime, but their performance at the low‐mid …

Medium entropy‐enabled high performance cubic GeTe thermoelectrics

S Zhi, J Li, L Hu, J Li, N Li, H Wu, F Liu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The configurational entropy is an emerging descriptor in the functional materials genome. In
thermoelectric materials, the configurational entropy helps tune the delicate trade‐off …

Achieving Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance in GeTe Alloys via Introducing Cu2Te Nanocrystals and Resonant Level …

Q Zhang, Z Ti, Y Zhu, Y Zhang, Y Cao, S Li, M Wang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The binary compound of GeTe emerging as a potential medium-temperature thermoelectric
material has drawn a great deal of attention. Here, we achieve ultralow lattice thermal …

Probing of Bi doped GeTe thermoelectrics leads to revelation of resonant states

US Shenoy, DK Bhat - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022 - Elsevier
Quest for lead free high performance mid temperature thermoelectric materials has led to
extensive research on SnTe and GeTe based materials. Among various strategies …

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 …