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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 3, Issue 40, Pages 10401-10408Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5tc01652e
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- Japan-U.S. Cooperation Project for Research and Standardization of Clean Energy Technologies - Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
- JSPS KAKENHI [15F15068, 25420699]
- Revolutionary Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science [DE-SC0001054]
- Revolutionary Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001054]
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The thermoelectric properties of sintered samples of n-type PbTe1-xIx-yMgTe (x = 0.0012-0.006; y = 0 and 1%) were investigated over the temperature range of 300 K to 900 K. Scanning electron microscopy revealed two different length scales of grains in samples with higher I and MgTe contents, while a homogenous microstructure for samples with a lower dopant content. Transmission electron microscopy revealed ubiquitous spherical nanoprecipitates in PbTe1-xIx with MgTe and nanoscale disk like precipitates in both, PbTe1-xIx with and without MgTe. The nanostructured PbTe showed higher Seebeck coefficients than expected values. We also observed a slower rate of increase in the electrical resistivity with rising temperature in PbTe1-xIx-yMgTe below B550 K, leading to a higher thermoelectric power factor. The nanostructures and mixed microstructures scatter phonons, reducing the lattice thermal conductivity as low as 0.4 W K-1 m(-1) at 600 K. A high ZT of 1.2 at 700 K was achieved as well as a high average ZT of 0.8 was observed in PbTe0.996I0.004-1 mol% MgTe for a cold-side temperature of 303 K and a hot-side temperature of 873 K.
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