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Enhanced High-Temperature Thermoelectric Performance by Strain Engineering in BiOCl

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PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.014053

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [12074115, 11974106, 11874145]

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In this study, the thermoelectric properties of semiconductor BiOCl crystals were accurately predicted, and it was found that applying in-plane biaxial tensile strain can further enhance its performance, making it an excellent high-temperature thermoelectric material.
Semiconductor BiOCl has a layered structure with ultralow lattice thermal conductivity [Q.D. Gibson et al., Science 373, 1017-1022 (2021)] and has potential applications in the field of thermoelectric materials. In the present study, the thermoelectric properties of BiOCl crystals are accurately predicted using the first-principles calculation combined with Boltzmann transport theory. The dimensionless figure of merit (ZT) of p-type BiOCl is found to be 0.2 at room temperature, reaching 1.1 at 800 K. In addition, applying in-plane biaxial tensile strain c, can lead to a further increase in the value of ZT to 1.9 at 800 K. This means that p BiOCl is an excellent high-temperature thermoelectric material. And this is due to the fact that biaxial strain drastically reduces the lattice thermal conductivity and the shift of the valence band toward the Fermi level can optimize the carrier concentration. Thus, the present work paves a way for the design of adjustable high-temperature thermoelectric materials.

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