Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 125, Issue -, Pages 542-549Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.11.049
Keywords
Thermoelectric; SnTe; Composite; Nanostructure
Funding
- Zhuoyue Program from Beihang University
- Recruitment Program for Young Professionals
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51571007]
- Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality [ZDSYS20141118160434515]
- Guangdong Science and Technology Fund [2015A030308001]
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SnTe, a lead-free analogue of PbTe, exhibits inferior thermoelectric performance due to its intrinsically high carrier concentration, and thus too low Seebeck coefficient and high thermal conductivity. To optimize the overall properties of SnTe, we composited SnTe with the other compound with opposite performance. CuInTe2 is a good choice due to its low carrier concentration, high Seebeck coefficient and relatively low thermal conductivity. As a result, the most optimized properties can be obtained in CuSnmInTem+2 when m = 7, and an enhanced figure of merit ZTcan be obtained, similar to 1.0 at 873 K, which is a three-fold increase for pure CuInTe2 and one-fold increase for pure SnTe. The overall properties are optimized much greater than the expectation, which was estimated through Effective Medium Theory (EMT). Such deviation can be ascribed to the existence of high density of coherent nanostructures. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Acta Materialia Inc.
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