Thermoelectric figure-of-merit in <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-type bismuth- and antimony-chalcogenide-based solid solutions above room temperature |
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Authors: | L N Luk’yanova V A Kutasov P P Konstantinov and V V Popov |
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Institution: | 1.Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences,St. Petersburg,Russia |
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Abstract: | The specific features of the variation in the thermoelectric figure-of merit Z for p-type bismuth- and antimony-chalcogenide-based solid solutions p-(Bi,Sb)2(Te,Se)3 have been analyzed with allowance made for the data amassed in the investigation of thermoelectric and galvanomagnetic properties.
It has been shown that, in the samples with optimum carrier concentrations, the increase in Z in the multicomponent p-Bi2 − x
Sb
x
Te3 − y
Se
y
composition (x = 1.3, y = 0.06) in the temperature range 300–370 K is mediated by the high carrier mobility and the low lattice thermal conductivity.
The higher effective mass of the density of states and the larger slope of the temperature dependence of the mobility as compared
to the other compositions bring about an increase in Z in the p-Bi2 − x
Sb
x
Te3 solid solution for x = 1.6 in the temperature range 370–550 K. The increase in the figure-of merit reached in the compositions under study stems
also from the increasing contraction of constant-energy ellipsoids along the binary and bisector directions and from the change
in the angle θ between the principal axes of the ellipsoids and the crystallographic axes. |
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