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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 871, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.159548
Keywords
Thermoelectric materials; Sulfide; Spinel; Seebeck coefficient; Electronic structure
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP17H04951, JP20H02440, JP19J12916]
- International Joint Research Program for Innovative Energy Technology - METI
- JST CREST [JPMJCR16Q6, JPMJCR20Q4]
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The electronic structures of Cu2TryTi4-yS8 thiospinels were studied using a combination of thermoelectric measurements and first-principles calculations. Substituting Sc and Co for Ti reduced electron carrier concentration, leading to increased electrical resistivity and Seebeck coefficient. Co-substituted samples showed remarkably enhanced Seebeck coefficient at 673 K, resulting in higher dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit.
We studied the electronic structures of Cu2TryTi4-yS8 (Tr = Sc, Co) thiospinels by combining thermoelectric measurements and first-principles calculations. The thiospinels showed n-type and metallic properties governed by a conductive network composed of edge-shared (Ti/Tr)S-6 octahedra. The substitutions of Sc and Co for Ti decreased the electron carrier concentration in a similar manner, leading to increases in both the electrical resistivity and Seebeck coefficient. Although the electrical resistivity was equivalent for Tr = Sc and Tr = Co, the Seebeck coefficient was remarkably enhanced for Tr = Co as compared to that for Tr = Sc. The enhanced Seebeck coefficient in the Co-substituted system was ascribed to the increased density of states of conduction band near the Fermi level due to the partial replacement of Ti-3d orbitals by Co-3d orbitals. Owing to the electronic structure modification, a higher dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT= 0.2 at y = 1-1.5) was achieved for the Co-substituted samples at 673 K. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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