期刊
ACTA MATERIALIA
卷 141, 期 -, 页码 154-162出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2017.09.009
关键词
p-type Mg2Sn0.75Ge0.25; Thermoelectric; Power factor
资金
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0010831]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51601152, 51372208, 51472207, 51572226]
Mg(Sn,Si) and Mg(Sn,Ge) are promising n-type thermoelectric materials with good thermoelectric properties in the temperature range of 300-800 K. For power generation, similar thermoelectric performance of p-type materials is equally important. However, p-type material performance is much worse than the n-type, because achieving optimized carrier concentration has been difficult for the p-type Mg2X (X = Sn, Si). In this study we systematically compared the effect of the dopants Li, Na, and Ga and found that the highest carrier concentrations are achievable in Li-doped samples. Due to the relatively high content of Sn, carrier concentration of > 5 x 10(19) cm(-3) were achieved for all dopants. Analysis of the transport data in the framework of a single parabolic band model showed similar and carrier concentration independent effective masses for all dopants. Our results therefore indicate a rigid band structure for p-type Mg2X for the studied dopants, in contrast to previous reports. Higher carrier mobilities have been achieved for Li-doped samples compared to the previous reports. Larger Hall mobilities leads to a higher peak power factor. Due to the higher carrier concentration, the onset of intrinsic excitations (bipolar effect) effectively shifts to higher temperature compared to the other two dopants, which results in a peak figure of merit of similar to 0.5 at 723 K for Li doped samples. (C) 2017 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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