Tellurium as a high-performance elemental thermoelectric

oleh: Siqi Lin, Wen Li, Zhiwei Chen, Jiawen Shen, Binghui Ge, Yanzhong Pei

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-01-01

Deskripsi

Good thermoelectric materials are often complex compounds. Here, the authors reveal that elemental tellurium has a high thermoelectric figure of merit between 300 and 700 K when doped with As, with the potential advantages of easy preparation and relative isotropy.