Enhanced power factor in the promising thermoelectric material SnPbxTe prepared via zone-melting-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Enhanced power factor in the promising thermoelectric material SnPbxTe prepared via zone-melting

Published:2015 Issue:73 Volume:5 Page:59379-59383
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

He Jun¹²³⁴⁵,Xu Jingtao¹²³⁴,Liu Guoqiang¹²³⁴,Tan Xiaojian¹²³⁴,Shao Hezhu¹²³⁴,Liu Zhu¹²³⁴,Xu Jiaqiang⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹,Jiang Jun¹²³⁴,Jiang Haochuan¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering

2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

3. Ningbo 315201

4. China

5. NEST Lab

6. Department of Chemistry

7. College of Sciences

8. Shanghai University

9. Shanghai 200444

Abstract

Tin telluride (SnTe) has recently attracted much attention as a promising thermoelectric material. By alloying with Pb using a zone-melting method, the maximum power factor of SnTe alloys reaches 30.5 μW cm⁻¹ K⁻², and a ZT of 0.81 has been obtained.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/RA/C5RA08542J

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