Thermoelectric properties and nanostructuring in the p-type materials NaPb 18-xSn xMTe 20 (M = Sb, Bi)
Thermoelectric properties and nanostructuring in the p-type materials NaPb 18-xSn xMTe 20 (M = Sb, Bi)
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DOI:
10.1021/cm803519p
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发表时间:
2009-03
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8.6
通讯作者:
A. Guéguen;P. Poudeu;C. Li;S. Moses;C. Uher;Jiaqing He;V. Dravid;K. Paraskevopoulos;M. Kanatzidis-M
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A. Guéguen;P. Poudeu;C. Li;S. Moses;C. Uher;Jiaqing He;V. Dravid;K. Paraskevopoulos;M. Kanatzidis-M
The thermoelectric properties of materials with nominal compositions NaPb18−xSnxMTe20 (M = Sb, Bi) were investigated in the temperature range 300−650 K. All the members of NaPb18−xSnxMTe20 have a cubic rock-salt (NaCl) type structure and exhibit p-type charge transport behavior between 300−650 K. The relative fraction of Sn strongly affects the physical, structural, and transport properties of the materials. Independent of the nature of the pnicogen atom (M), the electrical conductivity increases with decreasing Pb:Sn ratio, whereas the thermopower decreases. Hall effect data for selected samples, e.g., NaPb15Sn3BiTe20 and NaPb13Sn5SbTe20, show high carrier concentrations of ∼1 × 1020 cm−3 at room temperature. Comparing corresponding members from the antimony and bismuth series, we observed that the Sn-free compositions (x = 0) exhibit the highest power factors, and as a consequence, the highest ZT, with NaPb18BiTe20 reaching a ZT ≈ 1.3 at 670 K. The NaPb18−xSnxMTe20 series exhibit increasing total therma...