Peierls distortion as a route to high thermoelectric performance in In4Se3―δ crystals

作者: Jong-Soo Rhyee , Kyu Hyoung Lee , Sang Mock Lee , Eunseog Cho , Sang Il Kim

DOI: 10.1038/NATURE08088

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摘要: Thermoelectric energy harvesting—the transformation of waste heat into useful electricity—is of great interest for energy sustainability. The main obstacle is the low thermoelectric efficiency of materials for converting heat to electricity, quantified by the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT. The best available n-type materials for use in mid-temperature (500–900 K) thermoelectric generators have a relatively low ZT of 1 or less, and so there is much interest in finding avenues for increasing this figure of merit. Here we report a binary crystalline n …

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