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Lead-free chalcogenide SnTe has a similar crystal structure and energy band structure to high performance thermoelectric material PbTe, which has been widely concerned in recent years. However, due to its low Seebeck coefficient, high intrinsic Sn vacancy concentration and high thermal conductivity, its intrinsic thermoelectric performance is poor. In this study, Mn-In-Cu co-doping SnTe-based thermoelectric materials are prepared by hot pressing sintering at high-temperature and high-pressure. Indium (In) doping brings the resonant level in SnTe and increases the density of states which greatly improves Seebeck coefficient at room temperature; the Seebeck coefficient of Sn1.04In0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05 reaches 70 μV·K–1 at room temperature. With adding manganese (Mn), the Seebeck coefficient at room temperature is well preserved, indicating that Mn doping has little effect on the resonant level brought by In doping. In addition, due to the band convergence brought by Mn doping, the high temperature Seebeck coefficient of the material is improved, the maximum Seebeck coefficient reaches 215 μV·K–1 for the sample with 17% Mn doping amount at 873 K. Owing to the combination of band convergence and resonant level, the Seebeck coefficient of the whole temperature range of the material increases, the power factor of the material is also greatly optimized, and all samples have a power factor of more than 1.0 mW·m–1·K–2 at room temperature. On the other hand, the point defects brought by Mn alloying and the interstitial defects introduced by copper (Cu) enhance the phonon scattering and effectively reduce the lattice thermal conductivity of the material, the lattice thermal conductivity decreases to 0.68 W·m–1·K–1 at 873 K. The electrical and thermal properties of the materials are optimized simultaneously under the combination of various strategies, the peak zT ≈ 1.45 is obtained at 873 K in the p-type Sn0.89Mn0.15In0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05 sample and the average zT of 300–873 K reaches 0.76. In the process of multi-strategy coordinated regulation of SnTe-based thermoelectric materials, the excellent properties of single strategy can be well maintained, which provides a possibility for further improving the performance of SnTe-based thermoelectric materials.
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Keywords:
- SnTe /
- high-temperature and high-pressure /
- doping /
- thermoelectric materials
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图 3 Sn1.04–xMnxIn0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05(x = 0—0.17)样品的(a) 电导率随温度的变化, (b) 室温下载流子浓度和迁移率随x的变化, (c) Seebeck系数随温度的变化, (d) 室温下Seebeck系数与载流子浓度关系以及和相关研究的对比图[11,17,30-32], (e) 室温下有效质量对比图, (f) 功率因子随温度的变化
Figure 3. Sn1.04–xMnxIn0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05 (x = 0–0.17) samples: (a) Electrical conductivities as a function of temperature; (b) carrier concentration and mobility as a function of x at room temperature; (c) Seebeck coefficients as a function of temperature; (d) the relationship between Seebeck coefficient and carrier concentration at room temperature and comparison with the correlation studies[11,17,30-32]; (e) effective mass comparison at room temperature; (f) power factor as a function of temperature.
图 4 Sn1.04–xMnxIn0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05 (x = 0—0.17)样品的(a) 总热导率、(b) 洛伦兹数、(c) 载流子热导率、(d) 晶格热导率随温度的变化
Figure 4. Thermoelectric properties of Sn1.04–xMnxIn0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05 (x = 0–0.17) as a function of temperature: (a) Total thermal conductivity; (b) Lorenz number; (c) carrier thermal conductivity; (d) lattice thermal conductivity.
图 5 Sn1.04In0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05样品和Sn0.89Mn0.15In0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05样品的(a) 晶格热导率的实验值与拟合结果对比, (b) 晶格热导率与1000/T的函数关系图
Figure 5. (a) Experimental and fitting results of lattice thermal conductivity for Sn1.04In0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05 and Sn0.89Mn0.15In0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05; (b) lattice thermal conductivity as a function of 1000/T for Sn1.04In0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05 and Sn0.89Mn0.15In0.01Te(Cu2Te)0.05.
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[1] Wood C 1988 Rep. Prog. Phys. 51 459Google Scholar
[2] Biswas K, He J, Blum I D, Wu C I, Hogan T P, Seidman D N, Dravid V P, Kanatzidis M G 2012 Nature 489 414Google Scholar
[3] Pei Y, Shi X, LaLonde A, Wang H, Chen L, Snyder G J 2011 Nature 473 66Google Scholar
[4] Brebrick R F 1963 J. Phys. Chem. Solids 24 27Google Scholar
[5] Rogers L M 1968 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 1 845Google Scholar
[6] Wu H, Chang C, Feng D, Xiao Y, Zhang X, Pei Y, Zheng L, Wu D, Gong S, Chen Y, He J, Kanatzidis M G, Zhao L D 2015 Energy Environ. Sci. 8 3298Google Scholar
[7] Banik A, Shenoy U S, Anand S, Waghmare U V, Biswas K 2015 Chem. Mater. 27 581Google Scholar
[8] Tan G, Shi F, Doak J W, Sun H, Zhao L D, Wang P, Uher C, Wolverton C, Dravid V P, Kanatzidis M G 2015 Energy Environ. Sci. 8 267Google Scholar
[9] Tan G, Zhao L D, Shi F, Doak J W, Lo S H, Sun H, Wolverton C, Dravid V P, Uher C, Kanatzidis M G 2014 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 7006Google Scholar
[10] Tan X J, Shao H Z, He J, Liu G Q, Xu J T, Jiang J, Jiang H C 2016 Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18 7141Google Scholar
[11] Zhang Q, Liao B, Lan Y, Lukas K, Liu W, Esfarjani K, Opeil C, Broido D, Chen G, Ren Z 2013 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110 13261Google Scholar
[12] Ma Z, Lei J, Zhang D, Wang C, Wang J, Cheng Z, Wang Y 2019 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 11 33792Google Scholar
[13] Bhat D K, Shenoy U S 2017 J. Phys. Chem. C 121 7123Google Scholar
[14] Banik A, Vishal B, Perumal S, Datta R, Biswas K 2016 Energy Environ. Sci. 9 2011Google Scholar
[15] Roychowdhury S, Biswas R K, Dutta M, Pati S K, Biswas K 2019 ACS Energy Lett. 4 1658Google Scholar
[16] Tan G, Hao S, Hanus R C, Zhang X, Anand S, Bailey T P, Rettie A J E, Su X, Uher C, Dravid V P, Snyder G J, Wolverton C, Kanatzidis M G 2018 ACS Energy Lett. 3 705Google Scholar
[17] Pei Y, Zheng L, Li W, Lin S, Chen Z, Wang Y, Xu X, Yu H, Chen Y, Ge B 2016 Adv. Electron. Mater. 2 1600019Google Scholar
[18] Hu L, Zhang Y, Wu H, Li J, Li Y, McKenna M, He J, Liu F, Pennycook S J, Zeng X 2018 Adv. Energy Mater. 8 1802116Google Scholar
[19] Tang J, Gao B, Lin S, Li J, Chen Z, Xiong F, Li W, Chen Y, Pei Y 2018 Adv. Funct. Mater. 28 1803586Google Scholar
[20] Tang J, Yao Z, Wu Y, Lin S, Xiong F, Li W, Chen Y, Zhu T, Pei Y 2020 Mater. Today Phys. 15 100247Google Scholar
[21] Xu X, Cui J, Yu Y, Zhu B, Huang Y, Xie L, Wu D, He J 2020 Energy Environ. Sci. 13 5135Google Scholar
[22] Blachnik R, Igel R 1974 Z. Naturforsch., B: Chem. Sci. 29 625Google Scholar
[23] Li W, Zheng L, Ge B, Lin S, Zhang X, Chen Z, Chang Y, Pei Y 2017 Adv. Mater. 29 1605887Google Scholar
[24] Li W, Chen Z, Lin S, Chang Y, Ge B, Chen Y, Pei Y 2015 J. Materiomics 1 307Google Scholar
[25] Wu Y, Chen Z, Nan P, Xiong F, Lin S, Zhang X, Chen Y, Chen L, Ge B, Pei Y 2019 Joule 3 1276Google Scholar
[26] Zak A K, Majid A W H, Abrishami M E, Yousefi R 2011 Solid State Sci. 13 251Google Scholar
[27] Sarker P, Sen S K, Mia M N H, Pervez M F, Mortuza A A, Hossain S, Mortuza M F, Ali M H, Nur S, Kabir H, Chowdhury M A M 2021 Ceram. Int. 47 3626Google Scholar
[28] Guo F, Cui B, Liu Y, Meng X, Cao J, Zhang Y, He R, Liu W, Wu H, Pennycook S J, Cai W, Sui J 2018 Small 14 1802615Google Scholar
[29] Acharya S, Pandey J, Soni A 2016 Appl. Phys. Lett. 109 133904Google Scholar
[30] Li S M, Li J Q, Yang L, Liu F S, Ao W Q, Li Y 2016 Mater. Des. 108 51Google Scholar
[31] Uher C 2016 Materials Aspect of Thermoelectricity (Vol. 1) (Boca Raton: CRC Press) p8
[32] 傅铁铮, 沈家骏, 忻佳展, 朱铁军 2019 硅酸盐学报 47 1467
Fu T Z, Shen J J, Qi J Z, Zhu T J 2019 J. Chin. Ceram. Soc. 47 1467
[33] Brebrick R F, Strauss A J 1963 Phys. Rev. 131 104Google Scholar
[34] Guo F, Cui B, Geng H, Zhang Y, Wu H, Zhang Q, Yu B, Pennycook S J, Cai W, Sui J 2019 Small 15 1902493Google Scholar
[35] Shenoy U S, Bhat D K 2020 J. Mater. Chem. C 8 2036Google Scholar
[36] Kim H S, Gibbs Z M, Tang Y, Wang H, Snyder G J 2015 APL Mater. 3 041516Google Scholar
[37] Callaway J 1959 Phys. Rev. 113 1046Google Scholar
[38] Hussain T, Li X, Danish M H, Rehman M U, Zhang J, Li D, Chen G, Tang G 2020 Nano Energy 73 104832Google Scholar
[39] Li W, He Q Y, Chen J F, Pan Z L, Wang T 2014 Chem. Phys. Lett. 616-617 196Google Scholar
[40] Guo F, Wu H, Zhu J, Yao H, Zhang Y, Cui B, Zhang Q, Yu B, Pennycook S J, Cai W, Chu C W, Sui J 2019 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116 21998Google Scholar
[41] Wang H, Hwang J, Zhang C, Wang T, Su W, Kim H, Kim J, Zhai J, Wang X, Park H, Kim W, Wang C 2017 J. Mater. Chem. A 5 14165Google Scholar
[42] Tang J, Yao Z, Chen Z, Lin S, Zhang X, Xiong F, Li W, Chen Y, Pei Y 2019 Mater. Today Phys. 9 100091Google Scholar
[43] Wang D, Zhang X, Yu Y, Xie L, Wang J, Wang G, He J, Zhou Y, Pang Q, Shao J, Zhao L D 2019 J. Alloys Compd. 773 571Google Scholar
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