Recent advances in designing thermoelectric materials

Madhubanti Mukherjee, Ashutosh Srivastava and Abhishek K. Singh

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10, 12524
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Rashba effect modulation in two-dimensional A2B2Te6 (A = Sb and Bi; B = Si and Ge) materials via charge transfer

Haipeng Wu, Qikun Tian, Jinghui Wei, Ziyu Xing, Guangzhao Qin and Zhenzhen Qin

Nanoscale, 2025, 17, 17247
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Nanocomposites of chalcogenide phase-change materials: from C-doping of thin films to advanced multilayers

Rebecca Chahine, Martina Tomelleri, Jessy Paterson, Mathieu Bernard, Nicolas Bernier, François Pierre, Denis Rouchon, Audrey Jannaud, Cristian Mocuta, Valentina M. Giordano, Françoise Hippert and Pierre Noé

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 269
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Direct hot deformation of as-grown n-type Bi2Te3 ingots: a simple thermoelectric optimization strategy

Chuandong Zhou, Jianfeng Cai, Qiang Zhang, Guoqiang Liu, Xiaojian Tan, Jiaze Zhu, Guodong Zhang, Jiehua Wu, Bo Liang and Jun Jiang

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, 13, 23939
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Rashba effect and point-defect engineering synergistically improve the thermoelectric performance of the entropy-stabilized Sn0.8Ge0.2Te0.8Se0.2alloy

Liangwei Fu, Kangpeng Jin, Dan Zhang, Chenghao Zhang, Haonan Nie, Zixiong Zhen, Pan Xiong, Ming Huang, Jiaqing He and Biao Xu

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, 11, 24777
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Electron beam co-deposition of thermoelectric BiSb thin films from two separate targets

Philipp Lorenz, Gabriel Zieger, Jan Dellith and Heidemarie Schmidt

Thin Solid Films, 2022, 745, 139082
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Low lattice thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure-of-merit in Ag and K2S co-doped MnTe

Muhammad Yousaf, Zulkifal Shahzada, Song Li, Yaru Gong, Nan Jiajun, Huang Bin, Pubao Peng, Xuemei Zhang and Guodong Tang

Applied Surface Science, 2026, 720, 165279
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Enhancement of thermoelectric performance in two-dimensional materials: A review of recent progress

Gözde Özbal Sargin, Engin Durgun, Cem Sevik and Hâldun Sevinçli

Phys. Rev. Materials, 2026, 10
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Nanoconfinement Effect in Water Processable Discrete Molecular Complex-Based Hybrid Piezo- and Thermo-Electric Nanogenerator

Ajay Kumar, Rajashi Haldar, Erakulan E. Siddharthan, Ranjit Thapa, Maheswaran Shanmugam and Dipankar Mandal

Nano Lett., 2024, 24, 7861
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Inverse Janus design of two-dimensional Rashba semiconductors

Qikun Tian, Puxuan Li, Jinghui Wei, Ziyu Xing, Guangzhao Qin and Zhenzhen Qin

Phys. Rev. B, 2023, 108
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Suppressed bipolar effect and high average ZTave in CuO-doped Bi0.46Sb1.54Te3 bulks with a large size

Kaiwen Zhao, Mengyao Li, Zengguo Tian, Yingjiu Zhang and Hongzhang Song

Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2024, 44, 6488
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2024.03.067

Recent advances in thermomagnetic devices for spin-caloritronic phenomena

Ehsan Elahi, Abdullah A. Al-Kahtani, Ghulam Dastgeer, Sikandar Aftab, Jamal Aziz, Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Mumtaz Manzoor, Jian Jeong, Muhammad Suleman, Bilal Ahmed, Ganesh Koyyada and Pradeep Raj Sharma

Applied Materials Today, 2023, 32, 101846
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Thermoelectric transport properties in Janus Rashba semiconductors of monolayer Si2AsSb and Si2SbBi

Qiong Xia, Zhiyuan Xu, Long Zhang and Guoying Gao

Journal of Applied Physics, 2024, 136
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Thermoelectric properties of Rashba compounds KSnX (X = Sb, Bi)

Niharendu Barman, Md. Matin, Arabinda Barman and Prabir Kumar Haldar

Journal of Applied Physics, 2022, 132
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The role of spin in thermoelectricity

Guangsai Yang, Lina Sang, Chao Zhang, Ning Ye, Alex Hamilton, Michael S. Fuhrer and Xiaolin Wang

Nat Rev Phys, 2023, 5, 466
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Atomic-level engineering anisotropic thermal transport for directional heat dissipation in silicon electronics

Qikun Tian, Ailing Chen, Haofeng Qin, Ruyi Li, Yi Zhang, Yuting Jiang, Xiong Zheng, Zhenzhen Qin and Guangzhao Qin

Materials Today Physics, 2026, 62, 102049
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Layer-dependent electronic structure, dynamic stability, and phonon properties of few-layer SnSe

Feng-ning Xue, Zhi-hao Zhao, Yujuan Zhang, Ting Liu, Yong Lu and Ji-cai Zhang

Phys. Rev. B, 2022, 106
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PbSn(CH3)2 and PbSn(C2H)2 Monolayers as Rashba-Effect-Induced Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators for Thermoelectric Applications: A First-Principles Investigation

Shuangying Lei, Yuncai Jiang, Zixian Li, Yanbo Zhao, Xiaodong Huang and Qingan Huang

ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2025, 8, 11370
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Effects of high entropy combined with Cu/Ag doping on the thermoelectric properties of Bi2Sr2Co2Oy ceramics

Yingying Xu, Mengyao Li, Yingjiu Zhang, Hongzhang Song and Haoshan Hao

Ceramics International, 2025, 51, 11378
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.12.558

Realize high thermoelectric performance in both zone-melted ingots and powder-metallurgy bulks of Bi0.46Sb1.54Te3

Kai-Wen 凯雯 Zhao 赵, Meng-Yao 梦瑶 Li 李, Ying-Jiu 迎九 Zhang 张 and Hong-Zhang 红章 Song 宋

Chinese Phys. B, 2025, 34, 107203
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Thermoelectric Performance of Janus Monolayer ZnGeSTe from First-Principles Based Self-Consistent Transport Theory

Xuelian He, Xianyi Cai, Hongkuan Yuan and Hong Chen

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2025, 129, 6584
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Enhanced thermoelectricity in nanowires with inhomogeneous helical states

Zahra Aslani, Fabio Taddei, Fabrizio Dolcini and Alessandro Braggio

Phys. Rev. Research, 2026, 8
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Janus Rashba semiconductor of RbKNaBi: High thermoelectric performance and ultralow lattice thermal conductivity

Zhiyuan Xu, Cong Wang and Guoying Gao

Applied Physics Letters, 2025, 126
DOI: 10.1063/5.0256286

Two-dimensional Rashba semiconductors and inversion-asymmetric topological insulators in monolayer Janus MAA'ZxZ'(4−x) family

Jinghui Wei, Qikun Tian, XinTing Xu, Guangzhao Qin, Xu Zuo and Zhenzhen Qin

Applied Physics Letters, 2025, 126
DOI: 10.1063/5.0258804

Re-optimising the thermoelectric properties of BiTeSe by CuO doping: From zone-melting ingots to powder metallurgy bulks with a large size

Wanwan Zhang, Mengyao Li, Yingjiu Zhang, Zengguo Tian, Xin-Jian Li and Hongzhang Song

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024, 993, 174672
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.174672

Low thermal conductivity and enhanced thermoelectric properties of Cu-substituted Bi2-xCuxSr2Co2Oy ceramics

Yingying Xu, Mengyao Li, Yingjiu Zhang, Hongzhang Song and Haoshan Hao

Ceramics International, 2024, 50, 42404
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.08.085