Enhancing the thermoelectric performance of Sn0.5Ge0.5Te via doping with Sb/Bi and alloying with Cu2Te: Optimization of transport properties and thermal conductivities-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Enhancing the thermoelectric performance of Sn0.5Ge0.5Te via doping with Sb/Bi and alloying with Cu2Te: Optimization of transport properties and thermal conductivities

Published:2020 Issue:18 Volume:49 Page:6135-6144
ISSN:1477-9226
Container-title:Dalton Transactions
language:en
Short-container-title:Dalton Trans.

Author:

Song Shaochang¹²³⁴,Lo Chun-Wan Timothy¹²³⁴,Aminzare Masoud¹²³⁴,Tseng Yu-Chih⁵⁶³⁴,Valiyaveettil Suneesh Meledath⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹,Mozharivskyj Yurij¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

2. McMaster University

3. Hamilton

4. Canada

5. CanmetMATERIALS

6. Natural Resources Canada

7. Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences

8. Academia Sinica

9. Taipei 10617

10. Taiwan

11. Department of Physics

Abstract

SnTe-based thermoelectric materials are studied as potential substitutes for PbTe. Ge and Bi substitutions combined with the Cu₂Te alloying can significantly improve thermoelectric properties of SnTe as shown for (Sn_0.5Ge_0.5)_0.91Bi_0.06Te(Cu₂Te)_0.05.

Funder

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Inorganic Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/DT/D0DT00544D

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