Heavily doped p-type PbSe with high thermoelectric performance: An alternative for PbTe

Heng Wang; Yanzhong Pei; Aaron D. Lalonde; G. Jeffrey Snyder

doi:10.1002/adma.201004200

Heavily doped p-type PbSe with high thermoelectric performance: An alternative for PbTe

Heng Wang, Yanzhong Pei, Aaron D. Lalonde, G. Jeffrey Snyder

Materials Science and Engineering

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Abstract

PbSe was expected to have a smaller bandgap and higher thermalconductivity than PbTe. Instead, these values are about the same at high temperature leading to comparable thermoelectric figure of merit, with zT> 1 achieved in heavily doped p-type PbSe.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1366-1370
Number of pages	5
Journal	Advanced Materials
Volume	23
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201004200
State	Published - Mar 18 2011

Keywords

PbSe
PbTe
lead chalcogenides
thermoelectrics

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Materials Science(all)
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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