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Published December 15, 2011 | Version public
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Stabilizing the Optimal Carrier Concentration for High Thermoelectric Efficiency

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Shanghai Institute of Ceramics

Abstract

The band structure of PbTe can be manipulated by alloying with MgTe to control the band degeneracy. This is used to stabilize the optimal carrier concentration, making it less temperature dependent, demonstrating a new strategy to improve overall thermoelectric efficiency over a broad temperature range.

Additional Information

© 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Received: August 16, 2011. Revised: September 13, 2011. Published online: November 4, 2011. This work is supported by NASA-JPL and DARPA Nano Materials Program and the work at SIC-CAS is supported by CAS. LC acknowledges the support by the program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist(09xD1404400) .

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Eprint ID
28668
DOI
10.1002/adma.201103153
Resolver ID
CaltechAUTHORS:20120105-101406657

Funding

NASA/JPL
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Nano Materials Program
CAS
Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist
09xD1404400

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2012-01-06
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2021-11-09
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