Ga<sub>4</sub>C-family crystals, a new generation of star thermoelectric materials, achieved by band degeneracies, valley anisotropy, and strong phonon scattering among others-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Ga₄C-family crystals, a new generation of star thermoelectric materials, achieved by band degeneracies, valley anisotropy, and strong phonon scattering among others

Published:2023 Issue:15 Volume:11 Page:8013-8023
ISSN:2050-7488
Container-title:Journal of Materials Chemistry A
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Mater. Chem. A

Author:

Lou Ao¹,Fu Hua-Hua¹^ORCID,Wu Ruqian²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Physics, Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China

2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA

Abstract

We uncover a new class of high-performance thermoelectric materials, i.e., supertetrahedral Ga4C-family materials with an ultrahigh thermoelectric figure of merit, produced both by a large power factor and ultralow lattice thermal conductivity.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

U.S. Department of Energy

National Key Research and Development Program of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2023/TA/D2TA09210G

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