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Title: Achieving high room-temperature thermoelectric performance in cubic AgCuTe

Journal Article · · Journal of Materials Chemistry. A
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TA12954E · OSTI ID:1597131
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  1. Clean Energy Materials and Engineering Center, State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Device, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731
  2. Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, USA

Average ZT of near unity provides a competitive thermoelectric conversion efficiency of ∼12% at low temperature difference of 400 K.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0010831
OSTI ID:
1597131
Journal Information:
Journal of Materials Chemistry. A, Journal Name: Journal of Materials Chemistry. A Vol. 8 Journal Issue: 9; ISSN 2050-7488
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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Cited by: 38 works
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