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  Medium-temperature thermoelectric GeTe: vacancy suppression and band structure engineering leading to high performance

Dong, J., Sun, F.-H., Tang, H., Pei, J., Zhuang, H.-L., Hu, H.-H., et al. (2019). Medium-temperature thermoelectric GeTe: vacancy suppression and band structure engineering leading to high performance. Energy & Environmental Science, 12(4), 1396-1403. doi:10.1039/c9ee00317g.

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Dong, Jinfeng1, Author
Sun, Fu-Hua1, Author
Tang, Huaichao1, Author
Pei, Jun1, Author
Zhuang, Hua-Lu1, Author
Hu, Hai-Hua1, Author
Zhang, Bo-Ping1, Author
Pan, Yu2, Author           
Li, Jing-Feng1, Author
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1External Organizations, ou_persistent22              
2Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society, ou_1863425              

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 Abstract: GeTe is a promising thermoelectric material at medium temperature, but its carrier concentration tends to go beyond the optimal range for thermoelectrics. This work realized a significant ZT enhancement from 1.0 to 2.0 by suppressing the formation of Ge vacancies and band convergence. By simply optimizing the amount of excessive Ge, the hole carrier concentration is greatly reduced. It is demonstrated that the suppression of Ge vacancies can not only optimize the carrier concentration but also recover the mobility to a high value of 90 cm(2) V-1 s(-1), which well exceeds the previously reported data and guarantees superior electrical transport properties, leading to a ZT of 1.6. Further Bi doping facilitates band convergence as featured by the increased band effective mass and high mobility, which in turn yields large power factors and low electronic thermal conductivity. Bi doping induced mass and strain fluctuation also favors the reduction of the lattice thermal conductivity. Consequently, a maximum ZT of approximate to 2.0 at 650 K with an average ZT of over 1.2 is achieved in the nominal composition Bi0.05Ge0.99Te, which is one of the best thermoelectric materials for medium temperature applications.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2019-04-132019-04-13
 Publication Status: Issued
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 Identifiers: ISI: 000465275800019
DOI: 10.1039/c9ee00317g
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Title: Energy & Environmental Science
  Abbreviation : Energy Environ. Sci.
Source Genre: Journal
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Publ. Info: Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 12 (4) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 1396 - 1403 Identifier: ISSN: 1754-5692
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/1754-5692