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Giant Nernst effect and bipolarity in the quasi-one-dimensional metal Li0.9Mo6O17
J L Cohn1, B D White, C A M dos Santos
1Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA.
Abstract:
The Nernst coefficient for the quasi-one-dimensional metal, Li{0.9}Mo{6}O{17}, is found to be among the largest known for metals (ν≃500 μV/KT at T∼20 K), and is enhanced in a broad range of temperature by orders of magnitude over the value expected from Boltzmann theory for carrier diffusion. A comparatively small Seebeck coefficient implies that Li{0.9}Mo{6}O{17} is bipolar with large, partial Seebeck coefficients of opposite sign. A very large thermomagnetic figure of merit, ZT∼0.5, is found at high field in the range T≈35-50 K.
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