Shi, Xiaolei and Zheng, Kun and Hong, Min and Liu, Weidi and Moshwan, Raza and Wang, Yuan and Qu, Xianlin and Chen, Zhi-Gang and Zou, Jin (2018) Boosting the thermoelectric performance of p-type heavily Cu-doped polycrystalline SnSe via inducing intensive crystal imperfections and defect phonon scattering. Chemical Science, 9 (37). pp. 7376-7389. ISSN 2041-6520
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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.
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| Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Files associated with this item made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license. |
| Faculty / Department / School: | Current - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - No Department |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2019 04:27 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2019 00:31 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | low thermal-conductivity; figure-of-merit; n-type SnSe; transport-properties; optical-properties; phase-transition; single-crystals; temperature; optimization; enhancement |
| Fields of Research : | 09 Engineering > 0912 Materials Engineering > 091205 Functional Materials |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970109 Expanding Knowledge in Engineering |
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| Identification Number or DOI: | 10.1039/C8SC02397b |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/35495 |
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