Investigation of the possibilities for increasing the thermoelectric figure of merit of nanostructured materials based on Bi2Te3-Sb2Te3 solid solutions |
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Authors: | L P Bulat V B Osvenskii Yu N Parkhomenko D A Pshenai-Severin |
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Institution: | 1. National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Kronverkskii pr. 49, St. Petersburg, 197101, Russia 2. Federal State Research and Design Institute of Rare Metal Industry ??Giredmet,??, Bol??shoi Tolmachevskii per. 5-1, Moscow, 119017, Russia 3. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia
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Abstract: | The transport coefficients and thermoelectric figure of merit ZT for bulk nanostructured materials based on Bi2Te3-Sb2Te3 solid solutions have been investigated theoretically. Similar materials prepared by rapid quenching of the melt with the subsequent grinding and sintering contain amorphous and nanocrystalline regions with different sizes of particles. According to the performed estimations, the thermoelectric figure of merit of the amorphous phase can exceed the value of ZT for the initial solid solution by a factor of 2?C3 primarily due to the significant decrease in the thermal conductivity. The effective transport coefficients of the medium as a whole have also been investigated as a function of the parameters of each phase, and the concentration range of the amorphous phase, which corresponds to the effective values ZT > 1, has been determined. |
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