Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Ultrahigh transverse thermoelectric power factor in flexible Weyl semimetal WTe2

  • Yu Pan,
  • Bin He,
  • Toni Helm,
  • Dong Chen,
  • Walter Schnelle,
  • Claudia Felser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31372-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Flexible thermoelectrics are of great interest with increasing demand of flexible and wearable electronics. Here, the authors demonstrate that the Weyl semimetal, WTe2, has a high Nernst power factor and great mechanical flexibility.