Material descriptors for predicting thermoelectric performance

Temperature dependent band gap in PbX (X = S, Se, Te)

(2014) Zachary M. Gibbs et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Prediction of New Stable Compounds and Promising Thermoelectrics in the Cu–Sb–Se System

(2014) Yongsheng Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

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

(2014) Li-Dong Zhao et al.   NATURE

Optimization of thermoelectric efficiency in SnTe: the case for the light band

(2014) Min Zhou et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Thermoelectric properties of p-type polycrystalline SnSe doped with Ag

(2014) Cheng-Lung Chen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Beneficial Contribution of Alloy Disorder to Electron and Phonon Transport in Half-Heusler Thermoelectric Materials

(2013) Hanhui Xie et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Homogeneous precipitation synthesis and thermoelectric properties of Ca2Co2O5ceramics

(2013) S B Chen et al.   Advances in Applied Ceramics

Thermoelectric properties of Zn-doped Ca5In2Sb6

(2013) Alex Zevalkink et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

The high-throughput highway to computational materials design

(2013) Stefano Curtarolo et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Enhanced asymmetrical transport of carriers induced by local structural distortion in chemically tuned titania: A possible mechanism for enhancing thermoelectric properties

(2013) C. Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Lead Is Not Off Center in PbTe: The Importance ofr-Space Phase Information in Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy

(2013) T. Keiber et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Nb-doped SrTiO3 by nano-inclusion with low thermal conductivity

(2013) Ning Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Importance of non-parabolic band effects in the thermoelectric properties of semiconductors

(2013) Xin Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Improved thermoelectric properties in Zn-doped Ca5Ga2Sb6

(2013) Samantha I. Johnson et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Influence of the Triel Elements (M = Al, Ga, In) on the Transport Properties of Ca5M2Sb6 Zintl Compounds

(2012) Alex Zevalkink et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

A high thermoelectric figure of merit ZT > 1 in Ba heavily doped BiCuSeO oxyselenides

(2012) Jing Li et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Thermoelectric properties of Sr3GaSb3 – a chain-forming Zintl compound

(2012) Alex Zevalkink et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Low effective mass leading to high thermoelectric performance

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

Concentrated solar thermoelectric generators

(2012) Lauryn L. Baranowski et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Raising the Thermoelectric Performance of p-Type PbS with Endotaxial Nanostructuring and Valence-Band Offset Engineering Using CdS and ZnS

(2012) Li-Dong Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Large insulating gap in topological insulators induced by negative spin-orbit splitting

(2012) Julien Vidal et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Lattice dynamics reveals a local symmetry breaking in the emergent dipole phase of PbTe

(2012) Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Correcting density functional theory for accurate predictions of compound enthalpies of formation: Fitted elemental-phase reference energies

(2012) Vladan Stevanović et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

First-principles description of anomalously low lattice thermal conductivity in thermoelectric Cu-Sb-Se ternary semiconductors

(2012) Yongsheng Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal conductivity of bulk and nanowire Mg2SixSn1−xalloys from first principles

(2012) Wu Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal Conductivity and Large Isotope Effect in GaN from First Principles

(2012) L. Lindsay 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

High Thermoelectric Efficiency of n-type PbS

(2012) Heng Wang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Heavily Doped p-Type PbSe with High Thermoelectric Performance: An Alternative for PbTe

(2011) Heng Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Optimized thermoelectric properties of Mo3Sb7−xTex with significant phonon scattering by electrons

(2011) Xiaoya Shi et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

High thermoelectric figure of merit in heavy hole dominated PbTe

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

Reevaluation of PbTe1−xIx as high performance n-type thermoelectric material

(2011) Aaron D. LaLonde et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Thermoelectric properties of Cu1−xPtxFeO2 (0.0≤x≤0.05) delafossite-type transition oxide

(2011) Chesta Ruttanapun et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS

Improved carrier concentration control in Zn-doped Ca5Al2Sb6

(2011) Alex Zevalkink et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Mechanochemical synthesis and thermoelectric properties of high quality magnesium silicide

(2011) Sabah K. Bux et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Phonon engineering through crystal chemistry

(2011) Eric S. Toberer et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics

(2011) Yanzhong Pei et al.   NATURE

Giant anharmonic phonon scattering in PbTe

(2011) O. Delaire et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

High-performance flat-panel solar thermoelectric generators with high thermal concentration

(2011) Daniel Kraemer et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Thermoelectric transport properties of silicon: Toward anab initioapproach

(2011) Zhao Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Combinatorial and High-Throughput Screening of Materials Libraries: Review of State of the Art

(2011) Radislav Potyrailo et al.   ACS Combinatorial Science

The Zintl Compound Ca5Al2Sb6 for Low-Cost Thermoelectric Power Generation

(2010) Eric S. Toberer et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanostructured Thermoelectrics: Big Efficiency Gains from Small Features

(2010) Christopher J. Vineis et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ca3AlSb3: an inexpensive, non-toxic thermoelectric material for waste heat recovery

(2010) Alex Zevalkink et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Composition and the thermoelectric performance of β-Zn4Sb3

(2010) Eric S. Toberer et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Doping-Induced Metal−Insulator Transition and the Thermal Transport Properties in Ca3−xYxCo4O9

(2010) Yang Wang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Thermoelectric transport properties of PbTe under pressure

(2010) Lanqing Xu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Entropically Stabilized Local Dipole Formation in Lead Chalcogenides

(2010) E. S. Bozin et al.   SCIENCE

First-principles calculations of electron mobilities in silicon: Phonon and Coulomb scattering

(2009) O. D. Restrepo et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Zintl Chemistry for Designing High Efficiency Thermoelectric Materials†‡

(2009) Eric S. Toberer et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Electronic structure and transport in thermoelectric compounds AZn2Sb2 (A = Sr, Ca, Yb, Eu)

(2009) Eric S. Toberer et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects

(2009) A. J. Minnich et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Thermoelectric properties of p-type LiZnSb: Assessment of ab initio calculations

(2009) Eric S. Toberer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Tuning the transport and thermoelectric properties of In2O3 bulk ceramics through doping at In-site

(2009) E. Guilmeau et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Characterization and analysis of thermoelectric transport inn-typeBa8Ga16−xGe30+x

(2009) Andrew F. May et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Traversing the Metal-Insulator Transition in a Zintl Phase: Rational Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency in Yb14Mn1−xAlxSb11

(2008) Eric S. Toberer et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Evaluation of Half-Heusler Compounds as Thermoelectric Materials Based on the Calculated Electrical Transport Properties

(2008) Jiong Yang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Complex thermoelectric materials

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

Thermoelectric performance of lanthanum telluride produced via mechanical alloying

(2008) Andrew F. May et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

First-principles calculation of carrier-phonon scattering inn-typeSi1−xGexalloys

(2008) F. Murphy-Armando et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Multicomponent n-(Bi,Sb)2(Te,Se,S)3 solid solutions with different atomic substitutions in the Bi and Te sublattices

(2008) L. N. Luk’yanova et al.   PHYSICS OF THE SOLID STATE

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

(2008) Lon E. Bell   SCIENCE

Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency in PbTe by Distortion of the Electronic Density of States

(2008) J. P. Heremans et al.   SCIENCE