Achieving high room-temperature thermoelectric performance in cubic AgCuTe
Jing Jiang, Hangtian Zhu, Yi Niu, Qing Zhu, Shaowei Song, Ting Zhou, Chao Wang, Zhifeng Ren
Abstract
Average <italic>ZT</italic> of near unity provides a competitive thermoelectric conversion efficiency of ∼12% at low temperature difference of 400 K.
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