Relating local structure to thermoelectric properties in Pb1-xGexBi2Te4

• Main Authors: Dong, Jinfeng, Liu, Yukun, Liu, Jue, Hu, Lei, Jiang, Yilin, Tan, Xian Yi, Shi, Yuansheng, Yang, Dongwang, Saglik, Kivanc, Suwardi, Ady, Li, Qian, Li, Jing-Feng, Dravid, Vinayak P., Yan, Qingyu, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2025
• Subjects: Chemistry; Lattice thermal conductivity; Layered compound
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182196
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Layered compounds have garnered widespread interest owing to their nontrivial physical properties, particularly their potential as thermoelectric materials. We systematically investigated PbBi2Te4, a compound derived from Bi2Te3 and PbTe. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction and transmission electron micro...