When band convergence is not beneficial for thermoelectrics
Band convergence is a strategy to enhance a material’s thermoelectric performance, as it increases the charge carrier concentration for a given Fermi level. Here, the authors find that the benefit of band convergence can be negated by interband scattering depending on the manner in which bands conve...
Main Authors: | Junsoo Park, Maxwell Dylla, Yi Xia, Max Wood, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Anubhav Jain |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-06-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23839-w |
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