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 …

The role of spin in thermoelectricity

G Yang, L Sang, C Zhang, N Ye, A Hamilton… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Thermoelectric (TE) materials and devices are crucial for renewable thermal-to-electrical
energy conversion applications. The optimization of TE performance can be achieved by …

Vanadium: a protean dopant in SnTe for augmenting its thermoelectric performance

US Shenoy, DK Bhat - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, a second n-type resonant dopant in the form of vanadium is introduced in the
SnTe thermoelectrics family. The electronic structure simulated using density functional …

Resonance states and hyperconvergence induced by tungsten do** in SnTe: Multiband transport leading to a propitious thermoelectric material

US Shenoy, KD Goutham, DK Bhat - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022 - Elsevier
Discovery of dopants which can engineer the electronic structure of the thermoelectric
materials beneficially to improve the figure of merit has been receiving a lot of attention. In …

High-throughput screening of room temperature active Peltier cooling materials in Heusler compounds

H Luo, X Li, Y Wang, Y **, M Yao, J Yang - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Active Peltier cooling enables Peltier heat transfer in addition to the traditional
Fourier thermal conductance, which is useful in some special applications, such as the …

Molybdenum as a versatile dopant in SnTe: a promising material for thermoelectric application

US Shenoy, DK Bhat - Energy Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The key to enhancing the thermoelectric performance of SnTe is to engineer its electronic
structure by do**. It is essential that the beneficial features are exhibited at the Fermi level …

Liquid-phase exfoliation of bismuth telluride iodide (BiTeI): structural and optical properties of single-/few-layer flakes

G Bianca, C Trovatello, A Zilli, MI Zappia… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bismuth telluride halides (BiTeX) are Rashba-type crystals with several potential
applications ranging from spintronics and nonlinear optics to energy. Their layered …

First-principles calculations to investigate do** effects on electrical conductivity and interfacial contact resistance of TiO2

H Sun, Z Xu, D Zhang - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
In fuel cells, electrolysis cells, etc., titanium have been widely employed due to the high
corrosion resistance achieved by the oxide film. But it also leads to low electrical conductivity …

[HTML][HTML] Off-centering thermoelectrics

C **e, X Tang, G Tan - Next Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermoelectric (TE) materials that can achieve mutual conversion of electricity and heat has
experienced remarkable growth over the past two decades. While many TE materials exhibit …

Effects of charge rearrangement on interfacial contact resistance of TiO2/graphite from first-principles calculations

H Sun, Z Xu, D Zhang, L Peng, X Lai - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Titanium bipolar plates have been widely employed in fuel cells, due to the high resistance
achieved by the oxide film (TiO 2). However, that also results in high interfacial contact …