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Fengkai Guo1, Bo Cui1, Huiyuan Geng1
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China.
Abstract:
Significantly enhanced thermoelectric performance is achieved for eco-friendly SnTe by a coorperative effect between a dopant resonant energy level and interstitial defects. By manipulating the band structure through indium doping, the Seebeck coefficient is remarkably improved, leading to an enhanced power factor, with a high level of ≈29 µW cm-1 K-2 at 873 K. Lattice thermal conductivity is sharply reduced, approaching the amorphous limit, through the strong phonon scattering induced by multiple scales of Cu2 Te nanoprecipitates, as well as Cu interstitials, leading to a high ZT value of ≈1.55 at 873 K.
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