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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 52, Issue 16, Pages 9728-9738Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-017-1129-z
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [104-2112M-018-002-MY3]
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Nanostructured SnSe was fabricated using hydrothermal methods followed by sintering in an evacuated-and-encapsulated ampoule. The effects of reaction temperature (150-170 degrees C), duration (6-12 h) and sintering temperature (450-580 degrees C) on the electronic transport are investigated. It is found that both the electrical conductivity and thermopower of hydrothermally synthesized and nanostructured SnSe increase with temperature and follow the variable range hopping process. As a result, disorder-induced improvement of electronic transport combined with low thermal conductivity on the pressed sample face perpendicular to the pressed direction leads to zT = 0.54 at 550 K for the sample sintered at 500 degrees C, demonstrating a significant improvement of zT value in the intermediate temperature range for the SnSe system.
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