Manipulation of Band Degeneracy and Lattice Strain for Extraordinary PbTe Thermoelectrics

Maximizing band degeneracy and minimizing phonon relaxation time are proven to be successful for advancing thermoelectrics. Alloying with monotellurides has been known to be an effective approach for converging the valence bands of PbTe for electronic improvements, while the lattice thermal conducti...

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Main Authors: Yixuan Wu, Pengfei Nan, Zhiwei Chen, Zezhu Zeng, Siqi Lin, Xinyue Zhang, Hongliang Dong, Zhiqiang Chen, Hongkai Gu, Wen Li, Yue Chen, Binghui Ge, Yanzhong Pei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2020-01-01
Series:Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2020/8151059