Strong Reduction of Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured PbTe Prepared by Matrix Encapsulation

By Joseph R. Scotsman, R. Pcionek, H. Kong, C. Uher, M. Kanatzidis. 2006

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Experimental results are reported that demonstrate that nanostructuring in thermoelectric semiconductors enhances acoustic phonon scattering without the need to prepare solid solutions.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Materials Chemistry

1. Jin Zou
2. G. J. Snyder
3. Lei Yang
4. Eric S. Toberer
5. Zhigang Chen
6. Guang Han
7. Lina Cheng
8. Zhi-gang Chen

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. G. J. Snyder
2. Jin Zou
3. Y. Pei
4. Li-dong Zhao

Citations in the corpus

• Complex thermoelectric materials. (2008, background): “A variety of other materials have been formed that have oriented nanoparticle inclusions in a PbTe matri”
• Nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future challenge (2012, background): “ZT enhancement has been found in the many kinds of nanostructured material families, including Bi2Te3-based nanocomposites [21,80–89], PbTe-based nanostructured materials [16,17,23,34,90–106], and SiGe-based nanocomposites [25,107].”