Boosting the thermoelectric performance of p-type heavily Cu-doped polycrystalline SnSe via inducing intensive crystal imperfections and defect phonon scattering
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Article Title | Boosting the thermoelectric performance of p-type heavily Cu-doped polycrystalline SnSe via inducing intensive crystal imperfections and defect phonon scattering |
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ERA Journal ID | 200275 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Shi, Xiaolei (Author), Zheng, Kun (Author), Hong, Min (Author), Liu, Weidi (Author), Moshwan, Raza (Author), Wang, Yuan (Author), Qu, Xianlin (Author), Chen, Zhi-Gang (Author) and Zou, Jin (Author) |
Journal Title | Chemical Science |
Journal Citation | 9 (37), pp. 7376-7389 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | The Royal Society of Chemistry |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 2041-6520 |
2041-6539 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SC02397b |
Web Address (URL) | https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/sc/c8sc02397b |
Abstract | In this study, we, for the first time, report a high Cu solubility of 11.8% in single crystal SnSe microbelts synthesized via a facile solvothermal route. The pellets sintered from these heavily Cu-doped microbelts show a high power factor of 5.57 μW cm−1 K−2 and low thermal conductivity of 0.32 W m−1 K−1 at 823 K, contributing to a high peak ZT of ∼1.41. Through a combination of detailed structural and chemical characterizations, we found that with increasing the Cu doping level, the morphology of the synthesized Sn1−xCuxSe (x is from 0 to 0.118) transfers from rectangular microplate to microbelt. The high electrical transport performance comes from the obtained Cu+ doped state, and the intensive crystal imperfections such as dislocations, lattice distortions, and strains, play key roles in keeping low thermal conductivity. This study fills in the gaps of the existing knowledge concerning the doping mechanisms of Cu in SnSe systems, and provides a new strategy to achieve high thermoelectric performance in SnSe-based thermoelectric materials. |
Keywords | low thermal-conductivity; figure-of-merit; n-type SnSe; transport-properties; optical-properties; phase-transition; single-crystals; temperature; optimization; enhancement |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401605. Functional materials |
Byline Affiliations | University of Queensland |
Beijing University of Technology, China | |
Centre for Future Materials | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Funding source | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q5069/boosting-the-thermoelectric-performance-of-p-type-heavily-cu-doped-polycrystalline-snse-via-inducing-intensive-crystal-imperfections-and-defect-phonon-scattering
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