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 …

Advances in versatile GeTe thermoelectrics from materials to devices

M Hong, M Li, Y Wang, XL 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 …

High figure-of-merit and power generation in high-entropy GeTe-based thermoelectrics

B Jiang, W Wang, S Liu, Y Wang, C Wang, Y Chen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The high-entropy concept provides extended, optimized space of a composition, resulting in
unusual transport phenomena and excellent thermoelectric performance. By tuning electron …

Evolution of defect structures leading to high ZT in GeTe-based thermoelectric materials

Y Jiang, J Dong, HL Zhuang, J Yu, B Su, H Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
GeTe is a promising mid-temperature thermoelectric compound but inevitably contains
excessive Ge vacancies hindering its performance maximization. This work reveals that …

Interstitial Cu: an effective strategy for high carrier mobility and high thermoelectric performance in GeTe

LC Yin, WD Liu, M Li, DZ Wang, H Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dense point defects can strengthen phonon scattering to reduce the lattice thermal
conductivity and induce outstanding thermoelectric performance in GeTe‐based materials …

Metavalently bonded tellurides: the essence of improved thermoelectric performance in elemental Te

D An, S Zhang, X Zhai, W Yang, R Wu, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Elemental Te is important for semiconductor applications including thermoelectric energy
conversion. Introducing dopants such as As, Sb, and Bi has been proven critical for …

Review of current high-ZT thermoelectric materials

J Wei, L Yang, Z Ma, P Song, M Zhang, J Ma… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
Thermoelectric materials are capable of converting heat and electricity to each other.
Thermoelectric devices can be miniaturized and highly integrated with existing …

Achieving High Carrier Mobility And Thermal Stability in Plainified Rhombohedral GeTe Thermoelectric Materials with zT > 2

M Zhang, Z Gao, Q Lou, Q Zhu, J Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
GeTe is a very promising thermoelectric material, but the presence of massive intrinsic Ge
vacancies leads to an overhigh hole concentration and poor thermal stability. Counter …

GeTe thermoelectrics

X Zhang, Z Bu, S Lin, Z Chen, W Li, Y Pei - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Although GeTe has been known as thermoelectrics since 1960s, it has attracted intensive
renewed attention recently. GeTe undergoes a phase transition from a high-T cubic (c-GeTe) …