Thermoelectric properties of p-type polycrystalline SnSe doped with Ag

2014/01/01 by Cheng‐Lung Chen, Heng Wang, Yang-Yuan Chen +2 · 3 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · #2D Materials and Applications #Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices #Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films #Composite material #Crystallite #Doping #Engineering physics #Materials science #Metallurgy #Optoelectronics #Physics #Thermal conductivity #Thermodynamics #Thermoelectric effect #Thermoelectric materials

paper · doi:10.1039/c4ta01643b

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Abstract

Doped polycrystalline SnSe could have <italic>zT</italic> 0.6 at 750 K, suggesting good potential for thermoelectrics. Challenges come from difficulty in doping and hysteresis in resistivity.

Citations

• Ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure of merit in SnSe crystals
• High-performance bulk thermoelectrics with all-scale hierarchical architectures
• Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics
• High thermoelectric figure of merit in heavy hole dominated PbTe
• Weak electron–phonon coupling contributing to high thermoelectric performance in n-type PbSe

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