“…The optical properties and thermoelectric efficiency of PbTe depend, in order, on the deep defect electronic states in the neighborhood of the band gap, and on larger values of the dimensionless figure of merit ZT [7]. ZT is given by ZT = S 2 T/rk, where S, r, T, and k are the Seebeck coefficient, electrical resistivity, absolute temperature, and thermal conductivity, respectively [8][9][10].…”