Energy & Environmental Science · 2019 · 219 citations · 54 references
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Tailoring local structural distortions and the associated ferroelectric instability in SnTe <italic>via</italic> Ge alloying resulted in ultralow lattice thermal conductivity which boosts <italic>zT</italic> to 1.6 at 721 K.
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