Thermoelectric performance of co-doped SnTe with resonant levels

Thermoelectric performance of co-doped SnTe with resonant levels

High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe.

From an environmental perspective, lead-free SnTe would be preferable for solid-state waste heat recovery if its thermoelectric figure-of-merit could be brought close to that of the lead-containing chalcogenides. In this work, we studied the thermoelectric properties of nanostructured SnTe with different dopants, and found indium-doped SnTe showed extraordinarily large Seebeck coefficients that...

Thermoelectric Performance of Na-Doped GeSe

Recently, hole-doped GeSe materials have been predicted to exhibit extraordinary thermoelectric performance owing largely to extremely low thermal conductivity. However, experimental research on the thermoelectric properties of GeSe has received less attention. Here, we have synthesized polycrystalline Na-doped GeSe compounds, characterized their crystal structure, and measured their thermoelec...

Resonant level-induced high thermoelectric response in indium-doped GeTe

Resonant levels are promising for high-performance single-phase thermoelectric materials. Recently, phase-change materials have attracted much attention for energy conversion applications. As the energetic position of resonant levels could be temperature dependent, searching for dopants in phase-change materials, which can introduce resonant levels in both low and high temperature phases, remai...

Synthesis and Thermoelectric Behavior in Nanoparticles of Doped Co Ferrites

Samples of CoFe2-xCrxO4 where x varies from 0.0 to 0.5 were prepared by co-precipitation route. These samples were sintered at 750°C for 2 hours. These particles were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) at room temperature. The FCC spinel structure was confirmed by XRD patterns of the samples. The crystallite sizes of these particles were calculated from the most intense peak by Scherrer f...