Realizing high thermoelectric performance in non-nanostructured n-type PbTe
Baohai Jia, Yi Huang, Yan Wang, yeshiyuan Zhou, Xiaodie Zhao, Suiting Ning, Xiao Xu, Peijian Lin, Zhiquan Chen, Binbin Jiang, Jiaqing He
Abstract
A high zT of 1.7 without introducing any second phase in n-type PbTe was realized and a high energy conversion efficiency of 12.2% in an assembled generation module was achieved as well.
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