Ultrahigh Thermoelectric Performance by Electron and Phonon Critical Scattering in Cu2Se1‐xIx

Authors: Huili Liu, Xun Yuan, Ping Lu, Xun Shi, Fangfang Xu, Ying He, Yunshan Tang, Shengqiang Bai, Wenqing Zhang, Lidong Chen, Yue Lin, Lei Shi, He Lin, Xingyu Gao, Xingmin Zhang, Hang Chi, Ctirad Uher - Advanced Materials 2013 cited by 458

Iodine-doped Cu2 Se shows a significantly improved thermoelectric performance during phase transitions by electron and phonon critical scattering, leading to a dramatic increase in zT by a factor of 3-7 times culminating in zT values of 2.3 at 400 K.