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Computational Prediction of High Thermoelectric Performance in Hole Doped Layered GeSe

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Understanding the role and interplay of heavy-hole and light-hole valence bands in the thermoelectric properties of PbSe

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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

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The panoscopic approach to high performance thermoelectrics

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High-Performance Tellurium-Free Thermoelectrics: All-Scale Hierarchical Structuring of p-Type PbSe–MSe Systems (M = Ca, Sr, Ba)

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High Thermoelectric Performance via Hierarchical Compositionally Alloyed Nanostructures

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Strong Phonon Scattering by Layer Structured PbSnS2in PbTe Based Thermoelectric Materials

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

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Heavy Doping and Band Engineering by Potassium to Improve the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in p-Type PbTe, PbSe, and PbTe1–ySey

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

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

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Exploring the doping effects of Ag in p-type PbSe compounds with enhanced thermoelectric performance

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Microstructure-Lattice Thermal Conductivity Correlation in Nanostructured PbTe0.7S0.3Thermoelectric Materials

(2010) Jiaqing He et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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

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Analysis of Nanostructuring in High Figure-of-Merit Ag1-xPbmSbTe2+mThermoelectric Materials

(2009) Bruce A. Cook et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

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(2009) Mercouri G. Kanatzidis   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Electronic inhomogeneity and Ag:Sb imbalance ofAg1−yPb18Sb1+zTe20high-performance thermoelectrics elucidated byT125eandP207bNMR

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(2008) Zhaochu Hu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

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