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Synergistic Enhancement of Thermoelectric Performances by Cl-Doping and Pb-Excess in (Pb,Sn)Se Topological Crystal
Jin Hee Kim1, Gareoung Kim2, Seokyeong Byeon3
1Department of Applied Physics, Integrated Education Institute for Frontier Science and Technology (BK21 Four) and Institute of Natural Sciences, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Korea.
Abstract:
We investigated the thermoelectric properties of the Pb0.75Sn0.25Se and Pb0.79Sn0.25Se1-xClx (x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 mol.%) compounds, synthesized by hot-press sintering. The electrical transport properties showed that low concentration doping of Cl (below 0.3 mol.%) in the Pb-excess (Pb,Sn)Se samples increased the carrier concentration and the Hall mobility by the increase of carriers' mean free path. The effective mass of the carrier was also enhanced from the measurements of the Seebeck coefficient. The enhanced effective masses of the carrier by the Cl-doping can be understood by the enhanced electron-phonon interaction, caused by the crystalline mirror symmetry breaking. The significantly decreased lattice thermal conductivities showed that the crystalline mirror symmetry breaking decreased the lattice thermal conductivity of the Pb-excess (Pb,Sn)Se. By the Cl-doping and the Pb-excess's synergistic effect, which can suppress the bipolar effect, the zT values of x = 0.2 and 0.3 mol.% reached 0.8 at 773 K. Therefore, we suggest that Pb-excess and the crystalline mirror symmetry breaking by Cl-doping are effective for high thermoelectric performance in the (Pb,Sn)Se.
