Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Complex electronic structure and compositing effect in high performance thermoelectric BiCuSeO

  • Guang-Kun Ren,
  • Shanyu Wang,
  • Zhifang Zhou,
  • Xin Li,
  • Jiong Yang,
  • Wenqing Zhang,
  • Yuan-Hua Lin,
  • Jihui Yang,
  • Ce-Wen Nan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10476-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Though BiCuSeO is a promising thermoelectric material, further study of its electronic structure-property relationship and compositing effect is required to optimize the performance. Here, the authors observe three power factor maxima in BiCuSeO with the increasing Pb-doping content.