Better thermoelectrics through glass-like crystals

Convergence of multi-valley bands as the electronic origin of high thermoelectric performance in CoSb3 skutterudites

(2015) Yinglu Tang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure of merit in SnSe crystals

(2014) Li-Dong Zhao et al.   NATURE

Conversion efficiency of skutterudite-based thermoelectric modules

(2014) James R. Salvador et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Phonon-glass electron-crystal thermoelectric clathrates: Experiments and theory

(2014) Toshiro Takabatake et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Thermopower enhancement by encapsulating cerium in clathrate cages

(2013) A. Prokofiev et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

When thermoelectrics reached the nanoscale

(2013) Joseph P. Heremans et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Thermoelectric Ceramics for Energy Harvesting

(2012) Kunihito Koumoto et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

Multiple-Filled Skutterudites: High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit through Separately Optimizing Electrical and Thermal Transports

(2011) Xun Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics

(2011) Yanzhong Pei et al.   NATURE

Role of Lone-Pair Electrons in Producing Minimum Thermal Conductivity in Nitrogen-Group Chalcogenide Compounds

(2011) Eric J. Skoug et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

On the Design of High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Clathrates through a Systematic Cross-Substitution of Framework Elements

(2010) Xun Shi et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Optimization of the thermoelectric properties of Ba8Ga16Ge30

(2008) J. Martin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Breakdown of phonon glass paradigm in La- and Ce-filled Fe4Sb12 skutterudites

(2008) Michael Marek Koza et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Avoided crossing of rattler modes in thermoelectric materials

(2008) Mogens Christensen et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Complex thermoelectric materials

(2008) G. Jeffrey Snyder et al.   NATURE MATERIALS