Phonon slowdown

Extreme phonon anharmonicity underpins superionic diffusion and ultralow thermal conductivity in argyrodite Ag8SnSe6

(2023) Qingyong Ren et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Strong phonon softening and avoided crossing in aliovalence-doped heavy-band thermoelectrics

(2023) Shen Han et al.   Nature Physics

Establishing the carrier scattering phase diagram for ZrNiSn-based half-Heusler thermoelectric materials

(2020) Qingyong Ren et al.   Nature Communications

Realizing high figure of merit in heavy-band p-type half-Heusler thermoelectric materials

(2015) Chenguang Fu et al.   Nature Communications

Glass-like phonon scattering from a spontaneous nanostructure in AgSbTe2

(2013) J. Ma et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Giant anharmonic phonon scattering in PbTe

(2011) O. Delaire et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Complex thermoelectric materials

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