Enhanced thermoelectric performance through homogenously dispersed MnTe nanoparticles in p-type Bi<bold>0.52</bold>Sb<bold>1.48</bold>Te<bold>3</bold> nanocomposites

Enhanced thermoelectric performance through homogenously dispersed MnTe nanoparticles in p-type Bi_0.52Sb_1.48Te₃ nanocomposites

Lu Tian-Qi^{1, 2, †}, Nan Peng-Fei^{2, †}, Song Si-Long¹, Zhu Xin-Yue³, Zhao Huai-Zhou^{2, ‡}, Deng Yuan^{1, §}

(color online) X-ray diffraction patterns for Bi_0.52Sb_1.48Te₃ composites obtained by adding x-mol% MnTe milled (a) 10 min, (b) 3 h; (c) lattice parameters a and (d) lattice parameters c versus MnTe content, calculated by the Rietveld method for Bi_0.52Sb_1.48Te₃ compounds.