Chemical Modification and Energetically Favorable Atomic Disorder of a Layered Thermoelectric Material TmCuTe2 Leading to High Performance

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 15401-15408

  Lin, Hua ^a   Chen, Hong ^a   Shen, Jin Ni ^a,b   Chen, Ling ^a   Wu, Li Ming ^a  

^a FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

phase transitions; structural modification; substructure approach; thermoelectric materials; TmCuTe2

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BINS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTING TELLURIUM; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; NARROW-GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; SUBSTRUCTURE APPROACHES; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; TMCUTE2;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84941028430     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404453     Document Type: Article

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