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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
卷 3, 期 40, 页码 10554-10565出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5tc01440a
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- Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences program [EDCBEE]
- DOE [AC02-05CH11231]
- Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
- NSERC
- Dalhousie University's Institute for Research in Materials and its Facilities for Materials Characterization
- F.R.S.-FNRS
- European Union Marie Curie Career Integration (CIG) grant HTforTCOs [PCIG11-GA-2012-321988]
A new group of thermoelectric materials, trigonal and tetragonal XYZ(2) (X, Y: rare earth or transition metals, Z: group VI elements), the prototype of which is TmAgTe2, is identified by means of high-throughput computational screening and experiment. Based on density functional theory calculations, this group of materials is predicted to attain high zT (i.e. similar to 1.8 for p-type trigonal TmAgTe2 at 600 K). Among approximately 500 chemical variants of XYZ(2) explored, many candidates with good stability and favorable electronic band structures (with high band degeneracy leading to high power factor) are presented. Trigonal TmAgTe2 has been synthesized and exhibits an extremely low measured thermal conductivity of 0.2-0.3 W m(-1) K-1 for T > 600 K. The zT value achieved thus far for p-type trigonal TmAgTe2 is approximately 0.35, and is limited by a low hole concentration (similar to 10(17) cm(-3) at room temperature). Defect calculations indicate that Tm-Ag antisite defects are very likely to form and act as hole killers. Further defect engineering to reduce such X-Y antisites is deemed important to optimize the zT value of the p-type TmAgTe2.
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