Manipulation of Band Degeneracy and Lattice Strain for Extraordinary PbTe Thermoelectrics

Lattice Softening Significantly Reduces Thermal Conductivity and Leads to High Thermoelectric Efficiency

(2019) Riley Hanus et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Manipulation of Phonon Transport in Thermoelectrics

(2018) Zhiwei Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Defect Engineering for High-Performance n-Type PbSe Thermoelectrics

(2018) Chongjian Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Routes for high-performance thermoelectric materials

(2018) Xiaoyuan Zhou et al.   Materials Today

Crystal Structure Induced Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Thermoelectric Ag9 AlSe6

(2018) Wen Li et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Rationalizing Phonon dispersion for lattice thermal conductivity of solids

(2018) Zhiwei Chen et al.   National Science Review

High thermoelectric performance in (Bi 0.25 Sb 0.75 ) 2 Te 3 due to band convergence and improved by carrier concentration control

(2017) Hyun-Sik Kim et al.   Materials Today

Manipulation of ionized impurity scattering for achieving high thermoelectric performance in n-type Mg3Sb2-based materials

(2017) Jun Mao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Novel Principles and Nanostructuring Methods for Enhanced Thermoelectrics

(2017) Takao Mori   Small

Mg vacancy and dislocation strains as strong phonon scatterers in Mg 2 Si 1−x Sb x thermoelectric materials

(2017) Jiazhan Xin et al.   Nano Energy

Simultaneous Optimization of Carrier Concentration and Alloy Scattering for Ultrahigh Performance GeTe Thermoelectrics

(2017) Juan Li et al.   Advanced Science

Defect Engineering for Realizing High Thermoelectric Performance in n-Type Mg3Sb2-Based Materials

(2017) Jun Mao et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Advances in Environment-Friendly SnTe Thermoelectrics

(2017) Wen Li et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Promising Thermoelectric Ag5−δTe3 with Intrinsic Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity

(2017) Xinyue Zhang et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Thermoelectric Properties of Cu2SnSe4 with Intrinsic Vacancy

(2016) Wen Li et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Higher thermoelectric performance of Zintl phases (Eu0.5Yb0.5)1−xCaxMg2Bi2by band engineering and strain fluctuation

(2016) Jing Shuai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tellurium as a high-performance elemental thermoelectric

(2016) Siqi Lin et al.   Nature Communications

Non-equilibrium processing leads to record high thermoelectric figure of merit in PbTe–SrTe

(2016) Gangjian Tan et al.   Nature Communications

Interstitial Point Defect Scattering Contributing to High Thermoelectric Performance in SnTe

(2016) Yanzhong Pei et al.   Advanced Electronic Materials

Low Sound Velocity Contributing to the High Thermoelectric Performance of Ag8SnSe6

(2016) Wen Li et al.   Advanced Science

Orbitally driven giant phonon anharmonicity in SnSe

(2015) C. W. Li et al.   Nature Physics

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

(2015) S. I. Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Significant band engineering effect of YbTe for high performance thermoelectric PbTe

(2015) Zhengzhong Jian et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Decoupling Interrelated Parameters for Designing High Performance Thermoelectric Materials

(2014) Chong Xiao et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Enhanced thermoelectric properties of p-type nanostructured PbTe–MTe (M = Cd, Hg) materials

(2013) Kyunghan Ahn et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

All-scale hierarchical thermoelectrics: MgTe in PbTe facilitates valence band convergence and suppresses bipolar thermal transport for high performance

(2013) L. D. Zhao et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Band Engineering of Thermoelectric Materials

(2012) Yanzhong Pei et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dopants effect on the band structure of PbTe thermoelectric material

(2012) Y. Takagiwa et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Low effective mass leading to high thermoelectric performance

(2012) Yanzhong Pei et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures

(2012) Kanishka Biswas et al.   NATURE

Copper ion liquid-like thermoelectrics

(2012) Huili Liu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Convergence of Conduction Bands as a Means of Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance ofn-TypeMg2Si1−xSnxSolid Solutions

(2012) Wei Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Weak electron-phonon coupling contributing to high thermoelectric performance in n-type PbSe

(2012) H. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enhancement of Thermoelectric Figure of Merit by the Insertion of MgTe Nanostructures in p-type PbTe Doped with Na2Te

(2012) Michihiro Ohta et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in PbTe Alloys Demonstrated in PbTe-CdTe

(2012) Yanzhong Pei et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Thermopower enhancement in Pb1−xMn x Te alloys and its effect on thermoelectric efficiency

(2012) Yanzhong Pei et al.   NPG Asia Materials

High thermoelectric figure of merit in heavy hole dominated PbTe

(2011) Yanzhong Pei et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Thermoelectrics from Abundant Chemical Elements: High-Performance Nanostructured PbSe–PbS

(2011) John Androulakis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Lead telluride alloy thermoelectrics

(2011) Aaron D. LaLonde et al.   Materials Today

Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics

(2011) Yanzhong Pei et al.   NATURE

Self-Tuning the Carrier Concentration of PbTe/Ag2Te Composites with Excess Ag for High Thermoelectric Performance

(2011) Yanzhong Pei et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High Thermoelectric Performance in PbTe Due to Large Nanoscale Ag2Te Precipitates and La Doping

(2010) Yanzhong Pei et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Exploring Resonance Levels and Nanostructuring in the PbTe−CdTe System and Enhancement of the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit

(2010) Kyunghan Ahn et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit and Nanostructuring in Bulkp-type Gex(SnyPb1−y)1−xTe Alloys Following a Spinodal Decomposition Reaction†

(2009) Yaniv Gelbstein et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Enhanced Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit in Nanostructured p-type Silicon Germanium Bulk Alloys

(2008) Giri Joshi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Complex thermoelectric materials

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

Intrinsically Minimal Thermal Conductivity in CubicI−V−VI2Semiconductors

(2008) D. T. Morelli et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High-Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured Bismuth Antimony Telluride Bulk Alloys

(2008) B. Poudel et al.   SCIENCE

Cooling, Heating, Generating Power, and Recovering Waste Heat with Thermoelectric Systems

(2008) Lon E. Bell   SCIENCE