Yanci Yan

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 940 citations indexed

About

Yanci Yan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanci Yan has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 940 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Materials Chemistry, 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 6 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yanci Yan's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (33 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (22 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (10 papers). Yanci Yan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (33 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (22 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (10 papers). Yanci Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yanci Yan's co-authors include Xu Lu, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Xiaodong Han, Guoyu Wang, Zhifeng Ren, Gang Chen, Hangtian Zhu, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Kunling Peng and Hong Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yanci Yan

31 papers receiving 928 citations

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Routes for high-performance thermoelectric materials

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanci Yan China	17	912	531	172	114	71	33	940
Yilin Jiang China	17	957 1.0×	481 0.9×	228 1.3×	125 1.1×	67 0.9×	28	1.0k
Yemao Han China	17	1.0k 1.1×	732 1.4×	122 0.7×	196 1.7×	35 0.5×	32	1.1k
Jean‐Baptiste Vaney France	17	1.1k 1.2×	715 1.3×	103 0.6×	255 2.2×	114 1.6×	42	1.1k
James P. Male United States	14	623 0.7×	340 0.6×	94 0.5×	94 0.8×	44 0.6×	23	659
Audrey M. Chamoire United States	5	842 0.9×	401 0.8×	172 1.0×	164 1.4×	118 1.7×	6	869
Zhonglin Bu China	18	1.3k 1.5×	795 1.5×	238 1.4×	191 1.7×	66 0.9×	23	1.4k
Tao Mao China	11	668 0.7×	414 0.8×	144 0.8×	72 0.6×	58 0.8×	14	704
Jianbo Zhu China	22	1.1k 1.2×	460 0.9×	294 1.7×	232 2.0×	79 1.1×	61	1.2k
Xing Tan China	15	849 0.9×	372 0.7×	128 0.7×	224 2.0×	64 0.9×	28	876
P. Masschelein France	12	694 0.8×	440 0.8×	83 0.5×	141 1.2×	50 0.7×	26	720

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Luo, Xiaobing, et al.. (2025). Insights into the lattice thermal conductivity of solids carrying type-I and type-II Weyl point phonons. Journal of Applied Physics. 138(12).

Chen, Peng, Chao Yuan, Hong Wu, et al.. (2025). Strong phonon softening and carrier modulation for achieving superior thermoelectric performance in n-type plastic SnSe2 single crystals. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 230. 120–128. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Peng, Yanci Yan, Hong Wu, et al.. (2025). Enhancing thermoelectric performance of GeSb4Te7 single crystals through synergistic band and point defect engineering. Journal of Materiomics. 11(5). 101047–101047.

Wang, Guowei, Jing Zhang, Xiangnan Gong, et al.. (2024). Boosting the thermoelectric properties of layered SnSb2Te4 compound by microstructure regulation combined with heterovalent halogen substitution. Ceramics International. 50(14). 25771–25778. 5 indexed citations

Yan, Yanci, Xu Lu, Guowei Wang, et al.. (2024). Simultaneous manipulation of electrical and thermal properties to improve the thermoelectric performance of CuInTe2. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 987. 174158–174158. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Peng, Bin Zhang, Hanjun Zou, et al.. (2023). In-doping induced resonant level and thermoelectric performance enhancement in n-type GeBi2Te4 single crystals with intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity. Chemical Engineering Journal. 467. 143529–143529. 13 indexed citations

Chen, Peng, Hong Wu, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Intrinsically Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity and Anisotropic Thermoelectric Performance in In‐doped GeSb₂Te₄ Single Crystals. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(11). 27 indexed citations

Chen, Peng, Bin Zhang, Zizhen Zhou, et al.. (2023). Anionic regulation and valence band convergence boosting the thermoelectric performance of Se-alloyed GeSb2Te4 single crystal. Acta Materialia. 254. 118999–118999. 18 indexed citations

Wu, Hong, Peng Chen, Zizhen Zhou, et al.. (2023). Band modification towards high thermoelectric performance of SnSb2Te4 with strong anharmonicity driven by cation disorder. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 154. 140–148. 24 indexed citations

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Peng, Kunling, Zizhen Zhou, Yanci Yan, et al.. (2022). Exceptional Thermoelectric Performance Enabled by High Carrier Mobility and Intrinsically Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Phosphide Cd₃P₂. Chemistry of Materials. 34(4). 1620–1626. 16 indexed citations

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Yan, Yanci, Nanhai Li, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2022). Strong anharmonicity induced low lattice thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric performance in (CuInTe2)1−x(AgSbTe2)x system. Applied Physics Letters. 121(1). 9 indexed citations

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Yan, Yanci, Nanhai Li, Guiwen Wang, et al.. (2021). Achieving high average power factor in tetrahedrite Cu12Sb4S13 via regulating electron-phonon coupling strength. Materials Today Physics. 22. 100590–100590. 16 indexed citations

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Guo, Lijie, Bin Zhang, Hong Wu, et al.. (2020). Manipulating the phase transformation temperature to achieve cubic Cu₅FeS_4−xSe_x and enhanced thermoelectric performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(48). 17222–17228. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bin, Guiwen Wang, Kunling Peng, et al.. (2019). Promoted high temperature carrier mobility and thermoelectric performance of InTe enabled by altering scattering mechanism. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(19). 11690–11698. 32 indexed citations

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Xie, Dandan, Bin Zhang, Aijuan Zhang, et al.. (2018). High thermoelectric performance of Cu₃SbSe₄ nanocrystals with Cu_2−xSe in situ inclusions synthesized by a microwave-assisted solvothermal method. Nanoscale. 10(30). 14546–14553. 36 indexed citations

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Wu, Hong, Xu Lu, Guoyu Wang, et al.. (2018). Sodium‐Doped Tin Sulfide Single Crystal: A Nontoxic Earth‐Abundant Material with High Thermoelectric Performance. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(20). 98 indexed citations

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Yang, Dingfeng, Wei Yao, Yanci Yan, et al.. (2017). Intrinsically low thermal conductivity from a quasi-one-dimensional crystal structure and enhanced electrical conductivity network via Pb doping in SbCrSe3. NPG Asia Materials. 9(6). e387–e387. 52 indexed citations

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Guo, Lijie, Guiwen Wang, Kunling Peng, et al.. (2016). Melt spinning synthesis of p-type skutterudites: Drastically speed up the process of high performance thermoelectrics. Scripta Materialia. 116. 26–30. 29 indexed citations

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Yan, Yanci, Heng Zhan, Wei Yao, et al.. (2016). Enhanced thermoelectric performance of chalcogenide Cu 2 CdSnSe 4 by ex-situ homogeneous nanoinclusions. Journal of Materiomics. 2(2). 179–186. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Guiwen, Aijuan Zhang, Dingfeng Yang, et al.. (2015). Colloidal synthesis of Cu_2−xAg_xCdSnSe₄ nanocrystals: microstructures facilitate high performance thermoelectricity. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 3(47). 12273–12280. 25 indexed citations

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