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Title: Lattice Dislocations Enhancing Thermoelectric PbTe in Addition to Band Convergence

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 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [3];  [1]
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  1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 4800 Caoan Road Shanghai 201804 China
  2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100190 China
  3. Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208 USA
  4. Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai University, 99 Shangda Road Shanghai 200444 China
  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road Hong Kong SAR 999077 China
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
OSTI Identifier:
1470458
DOE Contract Number:  
SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Advanced Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 29; Journal Issue: 23; Related Information: S3TEC partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Boston College; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
solar (photovoltaic), solar (thermal), solid state lighting, phonons, thermal conductivity, thermoelectric, defects, mechanical behavior, charge transport, spin dynamics, materials and chemistry by design, optics, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly), synthesis (scalable processing)

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Chen, Zhiwei, Jian, Zhengzhong, Li, Wen, Chang, Yunjie, Ge, Binghui, Hanus, Riley, Yang, Jiong, Chen, Yue, Huang, Mingxin, Snyder, Gerald Jeffrey, and Pei, Yanzhong. Lattice Dislocations Enhancing Thermoelectric PbTe in Addition to Band Convergence. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201606768.
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Chen, Zhiwei, Jian, Zhengzhong, Li, Wen, Chang, Yunjie, Ge, Binghui, Hanus, Riley, Yang, Jiong, Chen, Yue, Huang, Mingxin, Snyder, Gerald Jeffrey, & Pei, Yanzhong. Lattice Dislocations Enhancing Thermoelectric PbTe in Addition to Band Convergence. United States. doi:10.1002/adma.201606768.
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Chen, Zhiwei, Jian, Zhengzhong, Li, Wen, Chang, Yunjie, Ge, Binghui, Hanus, Riley, Yang, Jiong, Chen, Yue, Huang, Mingxin, Snyder, Gerald Jeffrey, and Pei, Yanzhong. Tue . "Lattice Dislocations Enhancing Thermoelectric PbTe in Addition to Band Convergence". United States. doi:10.1002/adma.201606768.
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@article{osti_1470458,
title = {Lattice Dislocations Enhancing Thermoelectric PbTe in Addition to Band Convergence},
author = {Chen, Zhiwei and Jian, Zhengzhong and Li, Wen and Chang, Yunjie and Ge, Binghui and Hanus, Riley and Yang, Jiong and Chen, Yue and Huang, Mingxin and Snyder, Gerald Jeffrey and Pei, Yanzhong},
abstractNote = {},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201606768},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
issn = {0935-9648},
number = 23,
volume = 29,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {4}
}
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