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Publications (5)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Semi-metals as potential thermoelectric materials: case of HgTe

Maxime Markov, Xixiao Hu, Han-Chun Liu +4

The best thermoelectric materials are believed to be heavily doped semiconductors. The presence of a bandgap is assumed to be essential to achieve large thermoelectric power factor…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Integrated Design of Aluminum-Containing High-entropy Refractory B2 Alloys with Synergy of High Strength and Ductility

Jie Qi, Xuesong Fan, Diego Ibarra Hoyos +3

Refractory high-entropy alloys, RHEAs, are promising high-temperature structural materials. Their large compositional space poses great design challenges for phase control and high…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Quantum-Annealing Enhanced Machine Learning for Interpretable Phase Classification of High-Entropy Alloys

Diego Ibarra Hoyos, Gia-Wei Chern, Israel Klich +1

High entropy alloys (HEAs) offer unprecedented compositional flexibility for designing advanced materials, yet predicting their crystallographic phases remains a key bottleneck due…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

From Quantum Annealing to Alloy Discovery: Towards Accelerated Design of High-Entropy Alloys

Diego Ibarra-Hoyos, Peter Connors, Ho Jang +6

Data scarcity remains a central challenge in materials discovery, where finding meaningful descriptors and tuning models for generalization is critical but inherently a discrete op…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013

Recent Advances in Nanostructured Thermoelectric Half-Heusler Compounds

Wenjie Xie, Anke Weidenkaff, Xinfeng Tang +3

Half-Heusler (HH) alloys have attracted considerable interest as promising thermoelectric (TE) materials in the temperature range around 700 K and above, which is close to the temp…