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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 140, 期 46, 页码 15883-15888出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09375
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11474219, 51772215]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFB0703600]
- RGC [27202516, 17200017]
Optimization of carrier concentration plays an important role on maximizing thermoelectric performance. Existing efforts mainly focus on aliovalent doping, while intrinsic defects (e.g., vacancies) provide extra possibilities. Thermoelectric GeTe intrinsically forms in off-stoichiometric with Ge-vacancies and Ge-precipitates, leading to a hole concentration significantly higher than required. In this work, Sb2Te3 having a smaller cation-to-anion ratio, is used as a solvend to form solid solutions with GeTe for manipulating the vacancies. This is enabled by the fact that each substitution of 3 Ge2+ by only 2 Sb3+ creates 1 Ge vacancy, because of the overall 1:1 cation-to-anion ratio of crystallographic and by the charge neutrality. The increase in the overall Ge-vacancy concentration facilitates Ge-precipitates to be dissolved into the matrix for reducing the hole concentration. In a combination with known reduction in hole concentration by Pb/Ge-substitution, a full optimization on hole concentration is realized. In addition, the resultant high-concentration point defects including both vacancies and substitutions strongly scatter phonons and reduce the lattice thermal conductivity to the amorphous limit. These enable a significantly improved thermoelectric figure of merit at working temperatures of thermoelectric GeTe.
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