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Disorder-controlled superionicity drives anomalous negative thermal expansion, phonon engineering, and device reliability in thermoelectric β-Cu 2 Se

Rajat Saini, Sayan Paul, Shivam Aggarwal, Tanmoy Maiti, Swapan K. Pati, Ramesh Chandra Mallik

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Abstract

Superionic conductors are a class of materials in which crystalline order is coupled with liquid-like ionic motion, producing an extreme anharmonic β-Cu 2 Se lattice.
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OpenAlex topics: Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity · Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices · Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials

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Affiliations

Thermoelectric Materials and Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India

Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawahar Lal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, 560064, India

Plasmonics and Perovskites Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 208016, India

Funding

Science and Engineering Research Board · University Grants Commission · Ministry of Education, India

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