First principle study of intrinsic point defects in Zintl-phase thermoelectric Eu2ZnSb2
First principle study of intrinsic point defects in Zintl-phase thermoelectric Eu2ZnSb2
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Zintl相热电Eu2ZnSb2本征点缺陷的第一性原理研究
DOI:
10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.155981
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发表时间:
2020-11
影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Zhai Pengcheng
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作者:
Ma Haoqin;Li Guodong;Zhang Xiaolian;Huang Haijun;Duan Bo;Zhai Pengcheng
Zintl phase compound Eu2ZnSb2, containing an intrinsic 50% Zn atom vacancy, is a potential mid-temperature p-type thermoelectric (TE) material with the low thermal conductivity. Understanding the intrinsic point defect plays a vital role in optimizing the TE properties, however, it keeps unknown so far for the Eu2ZnSb2compound. In this work, we applied density functional theory to investigate the intrinsic point defect of Eu2ZnSb2. Phase diagram analysis shows that EuZn11, Eu11Zn6Sb12and Eu16Sb11may exist as the secondary phase during the grown environment of Eu2ZnSb2. Among all vacancy, substitution, and interstitial defects, Zn vacancy (VZn) is found to have the lowest formation energy of ∼0.14 eV near CBM with a −2 charge state, suggesting Zn vacancy is the p-type dominant defect in Eu2ZnSb2. Calculated electronic localization function (ELF) shows that in the VZnstructure, the change of the electron distribution only occurs near the Zn vacancy. In addition, VZnonly changes its neighbor structure slightly. These results suggest that VZnis an isolated point defect behaving as −2 charge state, which agrees with our defect formation energy calculation. This intrinsic point defect study is beneficial for developing effective point defect strategy to optimize TE properties of Eu2ZnSb2.
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影响因子:
16.6
作者:
Hangtian Zhu;Jun Mao;Yuwei Li;Jifeng Sun;Yumei Wang;Qing Zhu;Guannan Li;Qichen Song;Jiawei Zhou;Yuhao Fu;Ran He;Tian Tong;Zihang Liu;Wuyang Ren;Li You;Zhiming Wang;Jun Luo;Andrei Sotnikov;Jiming Bao;Kornelius Nielsch;Gang Chen;David J. Singh;Zhifeng Ren
通讯作者:
Zhifeng Ren
DOI:
10.1201/9781315153766
发表时间:
2017-11
期刊:
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影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
15.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
He, Jian
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Kresse, G;Furthmuller, J
通讯作者:
Furthmuller, J
影响因子:
44.1
作者:
Freysoldt, Christoph;Grabowski, Blazej;Van de Walle, Chris G.
通讯作者:
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