Tellurium as a high-performance elemental thermoelectric

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 10287
• Main Authors: Lin, Siqi, Li, Wen, Chen, Zhiwei, Shen, Jiawen, Ge, Binghui, Pei, Yanzhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Nature Publishing Group 11.01.2016; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: Civil engineering; Crystal structure; Heat conductivity; Semiconductors; Temperature; Beijing China; China

High-efficiency thermoelectric materials require a high conductivity. It is known that a large number of degenerate band valleys offers many conducting channels for improving the conductivity without detrimental effects on the other properties explicitly, and therefore, increases thermoelectric perf...