Journal
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 563-567Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2014.08.028
Keywords
First-principle calculations; BiSb3Te6 material; Electronic structure; Thermoelectric properties; Carrier concentration
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50971101, 51074127]
- Center for High Performance Computing of Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
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The influence of electronic structure and doping level on the thermoelectric transport properties of BiSb3Te6 compound was investigated using first-principle calculations and Boltzmann transport theory. The calculation results indicate that BiSb3Te6 is a narrow gap semiconductor with an indirect band gap of 0.113 eV. The calculated band structures of the compound present nonparabolic curves with multi-valley band property. The density of states is enhanced below a few tenths of Fermi energy and the bands are flatted with heavy effective mass. The calculated thermoelectric coefficients of BiSb3Te6 are anisotropic and mainly dependent on the doping concentrations. The dopant dependences of ZT values are given with the optimal carrier concentrations similar to 10(19) cm(-3). This theoretical investigation gives a valuable insight into the relationship between the electronic structure and thermoelectric transport properties of BiSb3Te6 material, and provides a quantificational doping level to improve the thermoelectric performance. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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