The thermoelectric properties of bismuth telluride

IT Witting, TC Chasapis, F Ricci… - Advanced Electronic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bismuth telluride is the working material for most Peltier cooling devices and thermoelectric
generators. This is because Bi2Te3 (or more precisely its alloys with Sb2Te3 for p‐type and …

Recent advances in thermoelectric materials

C Gayner, KK Kar - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric materials are crucial in renewable energy conversion technologies to solve
the global energy crisis. They have been proven to be suitable for high-end technological …

Discovery of high-performance low-cost n-type Mg3Sb2-based thermoelectric materials with multi-valley conduction bands

J Zhang, L Song, SH Pedersen, H Yin, LT Hung… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Widespread application of thermoelectric devices for waste heat recovery requires low-cost
high-performance materials. The currently available n-type thermoelectric materials are …

Leveraging language representation for materials exploration and discovery

J Qu, YR ** to obtain n-type Mg3Sb2-based thermoelectrics
S Ohno, K Imasato, S Anand, H Tamaki, SD Kang… - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Zintl compounds make excellent thermoelectrics with many opportunities for chemically
tuning their electronic and thermal transport properties. However, the majority of Zintl …

Dense dislocation arrays embedded in grain boundaries for high-performance bulk thermoelectrics

SI Kim, KH Lee, HA Mun, HS Kim, SW Hwang, JW Roh… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The widespread use of thermoelectric technology is constrained by a relatively low
conversion efficiency of the bulk alloys, which is evaluated in terms of a dimensionless figure …

Exceptional thermoelectric performance in Mg 3 Sb 0.6 Bi 1.4 for low-grade waste heat recovery

K Imasato, SD Kang, GJ Snyder - Energy & Environmental Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bi2Te3 alloys have been the most widely used n-type material for low temperature
thermoelectric power generation for over 50 years, thanks to the highest efficiency in the 300 …

Thermoelectric properties of p-type polycrystalline SnSe doped with Ag

CL Chen, H Wang, YY Chen, T Day… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Many IV–VI semiconductors tend to be good thermoelectric materials, these include all Pb
chalcogenides as well as Pb-free SnTe: all of which crystallize in a NaCl cubic structure …

Improvement of Low‐Temperature zT in a Mg3Sb2–Mg3Bi2 Solid Solution via Mg‐Vapor Annealing

M Wood, JJ Kuo, K Imasato, GJ Snyder - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Materials with high zT over a wide temperature range are essential for thermoelectric
applications. n‐Type Mg3Sb2‐based compounds have been shown to achieve high zT at …

Metallic n‐Type Mg3Sb2 Single Crystals Demonstrate the Absence of Ionized Impurity Scattering and Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance

K Imasato, C Fu, Y Pan, M Wood, JJ Kuo… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mg3 (Sb, Bi) 2 alloys have recently been discovered as a competitive alternative to
the state‐of‐the‐art n‐type Bi2 (Te, Se) 3 thermoelectric alloys. Previous theoretical studies …