Tuning thermoelectric efficiency of monolayer indium nitride by mechanical strain

Nitrogen-rich indium nitride

Thermoelectric properties of SnSe2 monolayer.

The 2H (MoS2-type) phase of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) has been extensively studied and exhibits excellent electronic and optoelectronic properties, but the high phonon thermal conductivity is detrimental to the thermoelectric performances. Here, we use first-principles methods combined with Boltzmann transport theory to calculate the electronic and phononic transport propertie...

Chemical Potential Tuning and Enhancement of Thermoelectric Properties in Indium Selenides

Researchers have long been searching for the materials to enhance thermoelectric performance in terms of nano scale approach in order to realize phonon-glass-electron-crystal and quantum confinement effects. Peierls distortion can be a pathway to enhance thermoelectric figure-of-merit ZT by employing natural nano-wire-like electronic and thermal transport. The phonon-softening known as Kohn ano...

Tuning the thermoelectric properties of a single-molecule junction by mechanical stretching.

We theoretically investigate, as a function of the stretching, the behaviour of the thermoelectric properties - the Seebeck coefficient (S), the electronic heat conductance (κel) and the figure of merit (ZT) - of a molecule-based junction composed of a benzene-1,4-dithiolate molecule (BDT) coupled to Au(111) surfaces at room temperature. We show that the thermoelectric properties of a single mo...

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...