Gapped metals as thermoelectric materials revealed by high-throughput screening
Francesco Ricci, Alexander Dunn, Anubhav Jain, Gian‐Marco Rignanese, Geoffroy Hautier
Abstract
Gapped metals present in their band structure a gap near the Fermi level. This key feature makes these metals comparable to degenerate semiconductors and thus suitable as thermoelectrics. The present screening searches them systematically.
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