Enhancement of the thermoelectric performance of bulk SnTe alloys via the synergistic effect of band structure modification and chemical bond softening-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Enhancement of the thermoelectric performance of bulk SnTe alloys via the synergistic effect of band structure modification and chemical bond softening

Published:2017 Issue:27 Volume:5 Page:14165-14173
ISSN:2050-7488
Container-title:Journal of Materials Chemistry A
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Mater. Chem. A

Author:

Wang Hongchao¹²³⁴⁵,Hwang Junphil⁶⁷⁸⁹,Zhang Chao¹⁰¹¹¹²⁵,Wang Teng¹²³⁴⁵,Su Wenbin¹²³⁴⁵,Kim Hoon⁶⁷⁸⁹,Kim Jungwon⁶⁷⁸⁹,Zhai Jinze¹²³⁴⁵,Wang Xue¹²³⁴⁵,Park Hwanjoo⁶⁷⁸⁹,Kim Woochul⁶⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Wang Chunlei¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. School of Physics

2. State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials

3. Shandong University

4. Jinan

5. China

6. School of Mechanical Engineering

7. Yonsei University

8. Seoul

9. Korea

10. School of Opto-electronic Information Science and Technology

11. Yantai University

12. Yantai

Abstract

Seebeck coefficient of SnTe is largely enhanced by large band effective mass or decrease of energy separation through synergistic effect including resonance level and band convergence.

Funder

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/TA/C7TA03359A

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