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NPJ COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41524-021-00521-9
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- EPSRC [EP/L000202]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean government (MSIT) [2018R1C1B6008728]
- Graduate School of YONSEI University Research Scholarship Grants in 2019
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2018R1C1B6008728] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The study evaluated the thermoelectric potential of Cs3Cu2I5, finding that it exhibited excellent thermoelectric performance with a high thermodynamic heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency.
Metal halides have emerged as a new generation of semiconductors with applications ranging from solar cells to chemical sensors. We assess the thermoelectric potential of Cs3Cu2I5, which has a crystal structure formed of zero-dimensional [Cu2I5](3-) anionic clusters that are separated by Cs+ counter cations. We find the compound exhibits the characteristics of a phonon-glass electron-crystal with a large imbalance in the conduction of heat and electrons predicted from first-principles transport theory. Strong anharmonic phonon-phonon scattering results in short-lived acoustic vibrations and an ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity (<0.1 W m(-1) K-1). The dispersive conduction band leads to a high electron mobility (>10 cm(2) V(-1 )s(-1)). For an n-type crystal at 600 K, a thermoelectric figure-of-merit ZT of 2.6 is found to be accessible, which for a cold source of 300 K corresponds to a thermodynamic heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency of 15%.
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