Conduction band engineering of half-Heusler thermoelectrics using orbital chemistry
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Two conduction bands with very different effective masses are usually at the X point in half-Heusler Brillouin zone. Our orbital phase diagram provides feasible strategies to converge these two for thermoelectric enhancement.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2050-7488', '2050-7496']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ta09377k