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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 830, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.154625
Keywords
Thermoelectric materials; Carrier concentration; Carrier mobility; Anti-site defect; Magnetic measurement
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0702100, 2018YFB0703600]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51632005, 51772186]
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To improve the thermoelectric properties of a material, the carrier concentration needs to be optimized first. But the increase of carrier concentration usually results in degraded carrier mobility, which restricts the enhancement in thermoelectric performance. Herein, we report the Cd doped Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 which overcomes such a trade-off between carrier concentration and mobility. The doping of Cd results in significantly increased hole concentration, which successfully suppresses the bipolar diffusion. Meanwhile, magnetic measurements indicate that the Hall mobility increases with the doping of Cd owing to the decrease of anti-site defects. Thus, simultaneous increase of carrier concentration and mobility is realized in p-type Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 through Cd doping, resulting in significantly enhanced power factor. In addition, the lattice disorder induced by the substitution of Cd for Sb/Bi leads to an obvious reduction in lattice thermal conductivity. As a result, a zT value of 1.2 at 120 degrees C is achieved for the 2 at% Cd doped sample. The peak zT of the 4 at% Cd doped sample is shifted to 185 degrees C due to the effectively suppressed bipolar effect and an average zT value of similar to 1.0 is obtained in the temperature range of 50-300 degrees C. Our achievement demonstrates that there is still a significant room to improve the thermoelectric properties of the intensively investigated BiSbTe system by simply doping a properly selected element. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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