Nature Communications (Jan 2019)
Discovery of TaFeSb-based half-Heuslers with high thermoelectric performance
- Hangtian Zhu,
- Jun Mao,
- Yuwei Li,
- Jifeng Sun,
- Yumei Wang,
- Qing Zhu,
- Guannan Li,
- Qichen Song,
- Jiawei Zhou,
- Yuhao Fu,
- Ran He,
- Tian Tong,
- Zihang Liu,
- Wuyang Ren,
- Li You,
- Zhiming Wang,
- Jun Luo,
- Andrei Sotnikov,
- Jiming Bao,
- Kornelius Nielsch,
- Gang Chen,
- David J. Singh,
- Zhifeng Ren
Affiliations
- Hangtian Zhu
- Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston
- Jun Mao
- Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston
- Yuwei Li
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri
- Jifeng Sun
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri
- Yumei Wang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qing Zhu
- Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston
- Guannan Li
- Department of Materials and Energy, Southwest University
- Qichen Song
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jiawei Zhou
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Yuhao Fu
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri
- Ran He
- Institute for Metallic Materials, IFW-Dresden
- Tian Tong
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
- Zihang Liu
- Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston
- Wuyang Ren
- Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston
- Li You
- Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston
- Zhiming Wang
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Jun Luo
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University
- Andrei Sotnikov
- Institute for Metallic Materials, IFW-Dresden
- Jiming Bao
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
- Kornelius Nielsch
- Institute for Metallic Materials, IFW-Dresden
- Gang Chen
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- David J. Singh
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri
- Zhifeng Ren
- Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08223-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
The discovery of thermodynamically stable thermoelectric materials for power generation has relied on empirical methods that were not effective. Here, the authors apply the inverse design approach to identify and experimentally realize TaFeSb-based half Heuslers with high thermoelectric performance.
