Variation of thermoelectric figure-of-merits for Mg2Si x Sn1-x solid solutions

Author:

Yi Su-in,Yu ChoonghoORCID

Abstract

Abstract Recent advances in figure-of-merit enhancement for thermoelectric materials are mostly based on alloy material systems, which often require specific conditions to obtain the optimal electrical properties by valley convergence simultaneously with the minimized lattice thermal conductivity through maximum phonon-alloy scattering. However these conditions especially stoichiometry are often hard to control because of microstructural heterogeneity or immiscibility during material processing and prolonged use. This could easily foster the valley edge offset, inducing the negligible valley convergence as well as the abating phonon-alloy scattering. Here Mg2Si0.3Sn0.7 pellets with different spatial uniformity were prepared by varying mixing and annealing time. Mg2SixSn1-x solid solutions of a wide alloy range were studied because the susceptible ranges for valley convergence (0.6 < x < 0.8) and phonon-alloy scattering (0.1 < x < 0.9) are dissimilar. The power factor ranged from 4.4 mWm−1 K−2 to 3.2 mWm−1 K−2 at 573 K and effective mass from 1.1 m 0 to 0.8 m 0, and thermal conductivity also varied depending on the degree of homogeneity of Mg2Si0.3Sn0.7 due to the alteration of phonon-alloy scattering, resulting in a large swing of ZT between 1.33 and 0.8 at 673 K. Lastly we found the dependency of single valley effective mass (m* ) on valley edge offset (ΔE c) where conduction band valley X3 and X1 are broadened with valley convergence (i.e. m * at ΔE c = 0 > m * at ΔE c ≠ 0), proposing a modification on material parameter BNV E c)/m* E c), where both valley degeneracy (NV ) and m * are functions of ΔE c, on which none of any literature has paid attention so far. Our thorough investigation with an example of Mg2Si0.3Sn0.7 can be utilized for other thermoelectric materials most of which are fundamentally relying on high valley degeneracy and alloying at the base.

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Subject

Surfaces, Coatings and Films,Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Condensed Matter Physics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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