Heavy Doping and Band Engineering by Potassium to Improve the Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in p-Type PbTe, PbSe, and PbTe[subscript 1- y]Se[subscript y]

We present detailed studies of potassium doping in PbTe[subscript 1- y]Se[subscript y] (y = 0, 0.15, 0.25, 0.75, 0.85, 0.95, and 1). It was found that Se increases the doping concentration of K in PbTe as a result of the balance of electronegativity and also lowers the lattice thermal conductivity b...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Qian (Author), Cao, Feng (Author), Liu, Weishu (Author), Lukas, Kevin (Author), Yu, Bo (Author), Chen, Shuo (Author), Opeil, Cyril (Author), Broido, David (Author), Chen, Gang (Contributor), Ren, Zhifeng (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society, 2014-05-08T16:27:44Z.
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