Nanostructuring and High Thermoelectric Efficiency in p‐Type Ag(Pb1 – ySny)mSbTe2 + m

Thermoelectric (TE) power generation has come to be appreciated as an attractive means of low-cost conversion of waste heat to useful electrical energy with a small environmental impact. For a compound to qualify as an efficient thermoelectric material it should exhibit the highest TE figure of merit, ZT , possible at the temperature of operation, T. ZT is defined as

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