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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
卷 11, 期 26, 页码 14067-14074出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d3ta02735j
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The electrical and thermal transport properties of LuNiSb-based compounds were simultaneously improved by aliovalent doping of Sn and Co, resulting in a significant suppression of lattice thermal conductivity. Compared with Co-doped compounds, Sn-doped ones showed better electrical performance, likely due to a weaker perturbation of the valence band. This work highlights the simultaneous optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties through aliovalent doping, paving the way for the development of high-performance thermoelectric materials.
Rare earth-based half-Heusler compounds are potential thermoelectric materials with inherently low thermal conductivity. Here, LuNiSb-based compounds were successfully prepared and their electrical and thermal transport properties were simultaneously improved via aliovalent doping of Sn and Co. In addition to optimizing the carrier concentration, a huge suppression of lattice thermal conductivity & kappa;(L) (& SIM;40% at 300 K) was observed, despite the atomic mass and radius of Sn and Co having only small differences compared with those of the substituted matrix atoms. With the help of first-principles calculations, it is discovered that the suppression of & kappa;(L) mainly originates from the deceleration of optical phonons and the enhancement of phonon-phonon (p-p) scattering phase space. Compared with Co-doped LuNiSb-based compounds, Sn-doped ones exhibit better electrical performance, which is probably because of the weaker perturbation of the valence band. Finally, a peak zT of about 0.4 was obtained at 775 K for LuNiSb0.92Sn0.08. This work highlights the simultaneous optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties only by aliovalent doping, which helps develop high-performance thermoelectrics.
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