Non-equilibrium processing leads to record high thermoelectric figure of merit in PbTe–SrTe

Alloying lead telluride has proven a good strategy to improve its thermoelectric properties. Here, the authors use a rapid temperature quenching to prepare compounds alloyed above the thermodynamic solubility limit, which results in band convergence and high thermoelectric figures of merit.

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Main Authors: Gangjian Tan, Fengyuan Shi, Shiqiang Hao, Li-Dong Zhao, Hang Chi, Xiaomi Zhang, Ctirad Uher, Chris Wolverton, Vinayak P. Dravid, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ed064fd7ace547ed84c87aca120b6fd5
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