Boosting the thermoelectric performance of PbSe through dynamic doping and hierarchical phonon scattering

You, Li; Liu, Yefeng; Li, Xin; Nan, Pengfei; Ge, Binghui; Jiang, Ying; Luo, Pengfei; Pan, Shanshan; Pei, Yanzhong; Zhang, Wenqing; Snyder, G. Jeffrey; Yang, Jiong; Zhang, Jiye; Luo, Jun

doi:10.1039/c8ee00418h

Title: Boosting the thermoelectric performance of PbSe through dynamic doping and hierarchical phonon scattering

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Energy & Environmental Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ee00418h· OSTI ID:1540036

You, Li ^[1]; Liu, Yefeng ^[1]; Li, Xin ^[2]; Nan, Pengfei ^[3];

^[3]; Jiang, Ying ^[2]; Luo, Pengfei ^[1]; Pan, Shanshan ^[1];

^[4]; Zhang, Wenqing ^[5];

^[6];

^[2];

^[1];

^[7]

School of Materials Science and Engineering; Shanghai University; Shanghai 200444; China
Materials Genome Institute; Shanghai University; Shanghai 200444; China
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics; Institute of Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100190; China
School of Materials Science and Engineering; Tongji University; Shanghai 201804; China
Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Thermoelectric Materials and Department of Physics; Southern University of Science and Technology; Shenzhen 518055; China
Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Northwestern University; Evanston; USA
School of Materials Science and Engineering; Shanghai University; Shanghai 200444; China; Materials Genome Institute

Cu intercalation is demonstrated to enhance the thermoelectric performance of PbSe through the dynamic doping effect and hierarchical phonon scattering.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0001299

OSTI ID:: 1540036

Journal Information:: Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 11, Issue 7; ISSN 1754-5692

Publisher:: Royal Society of Chemistry

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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