Volume 25, Issue 45
Communication

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

Huili Liu

State Key Laboratory of High Performance, Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China

[+]These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Xun Yuan

State Key Laboratory of High Performance, Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China

[+]These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Ping Lu

State Key Laboratory of High Performance, Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China

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Xun Shi

Corresponding Author

State Key Laboratory of High Performance, Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

CAS Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

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Fangfang Xu

State Key Laboratory of High Performance, Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

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Ying He

State Key Laboratory of High Performance, Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China

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Yunshan Tang

CAS Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

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Shengqiang Bai

CAS Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

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Wenqing Zhang

Corresponding Author

State Key Laboratory of High Performance, Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

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Lidong Chen

Corresponding Author

State Key Laboratory of High Performance, Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

CAS Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion Materials, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai, 200050 China

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Yue Lin

Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026 China

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Lei Shi

Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026 China

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He Lin

Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 239 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201204 China

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Xingyu Gao

Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 239 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201204 China

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Xingmin Zhang

Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 239 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201204 China

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Hang Chi

Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109 USA

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Ctirad Uher

Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109 USA

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First published: 10 September 2013
Citations: 232

Abstract

Iodine‐doped Cu2Se 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.

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