Nature Communications (Oct 2022)
Evolution of defect structures leading to high ZT in GeTe-based thermoelectric materials
- Yilin Jiang,
- Jinfeng Dong,
- Hua-Lu Zhuang,
- Jincheng Yu,
- Bin Su,
- Hezhang Li,
- Jun Pei,
- Fu-Hua Sun,
- Min Zhou,
- Haihua Hu,
- Jing-Wei Li,
- Zhanran Han,
- Bo-Ping Zhang,
- Takao Mori,
- Jing-Feng Li
Affiliations
- Yilin Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Jinfeng Dong
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Hua-Lu Zhuang
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Jincheng Yu
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Bin Su
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Hezhang Li
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitechtonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- Jun Pei
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Fu-Hua Sun
- Institute for Advanced Materials, Hubei Normal University
- Min Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Haihua Hu
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Jing-Wei Li
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Zhanran Han
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- Bo-Ping Zhang
- The Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
- Takao Mori
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitechtonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- Jing-Feng Li
- State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33774-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The intrinsic high-concentration Ge vacancies in GeTe-based thermoelectric materials hinder their performance maximization. Here, the authors find that defect structure engineering strategy is effective for performance enhancement.
