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Tellurium as a high-performance elemental thermoelectric

Lin et al., 2016

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4051819601398848969
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Lin S
Li W
Chen Z
Shen J
Ge B
Pei Y
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Nature communications

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High-efficiency thermoelectric materials require a high conductivity. It is known that a large number of degenerate band valleys offers many conducting channels for improving the conductivity without detrimental effects on the other properties explicitly, and therefore …
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