Heavily Doped p‐Type PbSe with High Thermoelectric Performance: An Alternative for PbTe

PbSe was expected to have a smaller bandgap and higher thermalconductivity than PbTe. Instead, these values are about the same at high temperature leading to comparable thermoelectric figure of merit, with zT> 1 achieved in heavily doped p-type PbSe.

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