Designing chemical analogs to PbTe with intrinsic high band degeneracy and low lattice thermal conductivity

Finding new thermoelectric materials that can achieve high performance is vital to realizing the potential of future energy harvesting technology. Here, through computation methods, the authors identify two high-performance full-Heusler thermoelectric compounds with high intrinsic band degeneracy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jiangang He, Yi Xia, S. Shahab Naghavi, Vidvuds Ozoliņš, Chris Wolverton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08542-1