Tellurium as a high-performance elemental thermoelectric

Siqi Lin; Wen Li; Zhiwei Chen; Jiawen Shen; Binghui Ge; Yanzhong Pei

doi:10.1038/ncomms10287

Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Tellurium as a high-performance elemental thermoelectric

Siqi Lin,
Wen Li,
Zhiwei Chen,
Jiawen Shen,
Binghui Ge,
Yanzhong Pei

Affiliations

Siqi Lin: Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Wen Li: Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Zhiwei Chen: Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Jiawen Shen: Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Binghui Ge: Beijing national laboratory for condensed matter physics, Institute of physics, Chinese academy of science
Yanzhong Pei: Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10287
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Good thermoelectric materials are often complex compounds. Here, the authors reveal that elemental tellurium has a high thermoelectric figure of merit between 300 and 700 K when doped with As, with the potential advantages of easy preparation and relative isotropy.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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