Nature Communications (Sep 2022)
Tunable quantum gaps to decouple carrier and phonon transport leading to high-performance thermoelectrics
- Yong Yu,
- Xiao Xu,
- Yan Wang,
- Baohai Jia,
- Shan Huang,
- Xiaobin Qiang,
- Bin Zhu,
- Peijian Lin,
- Binbin Jiang,
- Shixuan Liu,
- Xia Qi,
- Kefan Pan,
- Di Wu,
- Haizhou Lu,
- Michel Bosman,
- Stephen J. Pennycook,
- Lin Xie,
- Jiaqing He
Affiliations
- Yong Yu
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Xiao Xu
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Yan Wang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Baohai Jia
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Shan Huang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Xiaobin Qiang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Bin Zhu
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Peijian Lin
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Binbin Jiang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Shixuan Liu
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Xia Qi
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University; Key Laboratory for Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province
- Kefan Pan
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Di Wu
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University; Key Laboratory for Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province
- Haizhou Lu
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Michel Bosman
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore
- Stephen J. Pennycook
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore
- Lin Xie
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Jiaqing He
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33330-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Defects are believed to always scatter carriers. Here, the authors find that the quantum gaps in GeTe-based materials do not scatter carriers, which decouple the carriers and phonons transport leading to high thermoelectric performance.
