Unusual distortions about Tl and Pb in PbTe: Tl

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Bridges, F.
Keiber, T.
Medling, Scott
Sales, Brian

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Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.

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When the well know thermoelectric PbTe is doped with a few percent Tl, the figure of merit, ZT = S2 σ /κ, is dramatically improved (here S is the Seebeck coefficient, σ the electrical conductivity and κ the thermal conductivity). Tl is a valence skipp

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Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics

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2037-12-31