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Opis bibliograficzny
Highly efficient n-type PbTe developed by advanced electronic structure engineering / Krzysztof T. WOJCIECHOWSKI, Taras Parashchuk, Bartłomiej WIENDLOCHA, Oleksandr CHERNIUSHOK, Zinovi Dashevsky // Journal of Materials Chemistry. C ; ISSN 2050-7526. — 2020 — vol. 8 iss. 38, s. 13270–13285. — Bibliogr. s. 13283–13285. — Publikacja dostępna online od: 2020-08-19
Autorzy (5)
- AGHWojciechowski Krzysztof Tomasz
- Parashchuk Taras
- AGHWiendlocha Bartłomiej
- AGHCherniushok Oleksandr
- Dashevsky Zinovi
Dane bibliometryczne
| ID BaDAP | 130801 |
|---|---|
| Data dodania do BaDAP | 2020-10-27 |
| Tekst źródłowy | URL |
| DOI | 10.1039/d0tc03067h |
| Rok publikacji | 2020 |
| Typ publikacji | artykuł w czasopiśmie |
| Otwarty dostęp |  |
| Czasopismo/seria | Journal of Materials Chemistry, C |
Abstract
Lead telluride is one of the most attractive state-of-the-art thermoelectric (TE) materials. Therefore, any improvement of its average thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT)av over a broad temperature range is a great challenge. Here, we show that advanced electronic structure engineering using the In quasi-local level with simultaneously optimized EF leads to a significant enhancement of energy conversion. Electronic structure calculations confirmed the formation of a half-occupied indium quasi-local level in PbTe, which, together with I-implemented electrons, provides the optimal chemical potential in terms of energy conversion, near the conduction band edge over the entire temperature range. As a result, an extremely high average thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT)av of up to ∼1.05 in the temperature range of 298 K to 773 K was achieved. Thermoelectric efficiency η was enhanced up to 14.2% for an n-type PbTe-based leg, which is one of the record-high values for a single-phase TE material. The performed theoretical analyses and experimental data prove that the large (ZT)av found in our system comes from the electronic structure and chemical potential engineering, offering a novel route for improving the efficiency of thermoelectric devices.
