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Han Yang, Yuan Yu, Wanqi Jie, Chongjian Zhou. Roadmap of SnSe from high-performance thermoelectric material to efficient module[J]. Materials Lab, 2025, 4(1): 240012. doi: 10.54227/mlab.20240012
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Roadmap of SnSe from high-performance thermoelectric material to efficient module
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Abstract
The past decade has seen an explosive interest in the thermoelectric performance of SnSe, as the pristine SnSe crystal exhibits an exceptionally high
ZT value. The works from worldwide research groups continuously elevate the performance of SnSe crystal and polycrystalline at every aspect. This perspective attempts to visualize the roadmap for the development routine and breakthroughs of SnSe thermoelectrics. The roadmap starts from the beginning of the pristine SnSe crystal. We then map all the representative thermoelectric performance and milestone findings of SnSe-based compounds in the past decade, ending with the possible future of SnSe from materials, devices, and applications.-
Keywords:
- Thermoelectric /
- SnSe /
- module /
- application
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Author Biographies
Han Yang received his bachelor's degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University in 2023. He currently studies for a master's degree in the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing & Key Laboratory of Radiation Detection Materials and Devices, MIIT, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University. His research interest mainly concentrates on synthesizing low thermal conductivity materials. 
Yuan Yu is a group leader at the I. Physikalisches Institut of RWTH Aachen University. He completed his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering at Hefei University of Technology in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Afterward, he joined RWTH Aachen in 2018 as a postdoctoral researcher under Prof. Matthias Wuttig. Since 2022, Dr. Yu has been leading a research group as a principal investigator. His research primarily focuses on the innovative design of thermoelectric and phase-change memory materials utilizing metavalent bonding and its interplay with microstructures. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Materials, and Advanced Materials. He is recognized for his expertise in using advanced tools like atom probe tomography and correlative microscopy to study material properties at the atomic level. 
Wanqi Jie is currently a professor in the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing & Key Laboratory of Radiation Detection Materials and Devices, MIIT, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University in 1988. His research interests mainly lies in the study of metal solidification and compound semiconductor crystal growth. 
Chongjian Zhou, professor in the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing & Key Laboratory of Radiation Detection Materials and Devices, MIIT, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, in 2016, and worked as a postdoc at Seoul National University in 2017–2021. He focuses on designing functional solid-state materials with extreme thermal properties. -
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Figure 1.
The maximum ZT value of SnSe crystal and polycrystal collected from literatures. The maximum ZT value of SnSe reported in the past decade, which were classified into p-type single crystal,[6,12,17–26] n-type single crystal,[7,27–30] p-type polycrystalline[10,11,31–60] and n-type polycrystal.[61–68] The reported maximum ZT reported for Half-heusler compound,[69] Bi2Te3-based,[13] SnTe-based,[70] PbSe-based,[71] PbTe-based,[72] and Cu2Se-based materials[73] are included for comparsion.
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Figure 2.
The power generation efficiency and Peltier cooling performance of SnSe-based thermoelectric devices. a The maximum conversion efficiency of the device as a function of ΔT.[12,13,23,24,49,70–74] The S-L denotes the single-leg device. b The maximum cooling temperature difference of the Peltier device was measured at the different hot end temperatures (Th).[12,14–16,24,75]
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Figure 3.
The low temperature thermoelectric performance and room temperature mechanical properties of SnSe-based compounds. a The ZT values of SnSe at temperature lower than 300 K.[24] The low temperature thermoelectric performance of CsBi4Te6-0.05 mol% SbI3,[76] Mg3.15Bi
1.4975 Sb0.5Te0.0025 ,[77] MgAg0.97Sb0.99,[78] Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3,[79] TlCu3.005Te2,[80] Bi0.91Sb0.09[81] are enclosed for comparison. The mechanical properties comparison of b compressive strength and c hardness between polycrystalline SnSe-based materials[35,49,61,82–88] and Bi2Te3-,[89–101] PbTe-,[102–113] and SnTe-based materials.[114–124]
