Enhancement of Thermoelectric Properties of n-Type Bi2Te3–xSex by Energy Filtering Effect

Author(s):  
Yuhei Kawajiri ◽  
Sora-at Tanusilp ◽  
Masaya Kumagai ◽  
Manabu Ishimaru ◽  
Yuji Ohishi ◽  
...  
Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1904-1911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Ma ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
Jingdan Lei ◽  
De Zhang ◽  
Yanqun Chen ◽  
...  

BiCuSeO@SnO2 core-shell nanostructures can introduce multiple potential barriers in SnTe to enhance energy filtering effect.


2010 ◽  
Vol 1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengnan Zhang ◽  
Shenghui Yang ◽  
Guangyu Jiang ◽  
Junjie Shen ◽  
Tiejun Zhu ◽  
...  

AbstractAgSbTe2 is the critical component in both LAST-m and TAGS-x system, which are two state-of-the-art mid-temperature thermoelectric bulk nanocomposites. By adjusting the Ag2Te/Sb2Te3 ratio, Sb2Te3 and Ag2Te precipitated samples were obtained with x = 0.68 to 0.74 and x = 0.84 to 0.90 (x as in (Ag2Te)x/2(Sb2Te3)1-x/2), respectively. The single phased AgSbTe2 was obtained with the x value of 0.78 and 0.81, which is consistent of the previous results on the phase diagram of (Ag2Te)x(Sb2Te3)1-x system. Comparing the effect of the two different precipitates, Ag2Te are much effective for the improvements of thermoelectric properties in AgSbTe2 nanocomposites. Utilizing the high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, Ag2Te was observed as nanodots and nano-lamellae embedded in the AgSbTe2 matrix, which can be related to the energy filtering effect for the increase of Seebeck coefficient. The relationship among the composition, microstructure and thermoelectric properties was systematically studied. It can be noticed that the thermoelectric properties of AgSbTe2 system are very sensitive to the composition, especially at low temperature. The maximum figure of merit ZT value of 1.53 was obtained at 500 K for Ag0.84Sb1.16Te2.16 with 40% increase comparing with the single phased sample.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (43) ◽  
pp. 21341-21349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Pakdel ◽  
Quansheng Guo ◽  
Valeria Nicolosi ◽  
Takao Mori

24 month high-ZT stability of Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3/Sb2O3 nanocomposites that demonstrate simultaneous Seebeck coefficient enhancement and thermal conductivity decline through energy filtering effect.


2012 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Narducci ◽  
Ekaterina Selezneva ◽  
Gianfranco Cerofolini ◽  
Stefano Frabboni ◽  
Giampiero Ottaviani

2016 ◽  
Vol 213 (12) ◽  
pp. 3250-3253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Zhao ◽  
Xiu-hong Zhu ◽  
Rui-zhi Zhang

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 498-502
Author(s):  
Changning Pan ◽  
Jun He ◽  
Zhiming Liu ◽  
Kaixing Shi

The thermoelectric properties of InAs nanowires modulated with the multiple-stub structures are studied using the scattering-matrix method. Owing to the very large surface-to-volume ratio, both the phonon and electron transport sensitively depend on the geometric structure. Carrier energy filtering which locally distorts electronic density of states strongly enhances the thermopower. Thus optimized thermopower, together with the significant reduction of the phonon thermal conductance, yields the high thermoelectric figure of merit ZT to 0.3∼1.9.


2015 ◽  
Vol 08 (06) ◽  
pp. 1550070
Author(s):  
Boyu Zhang ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Xinba Yaer ◽  
Zhenzhen Huo ◽  
Yin Wu ◽  
...  

Effect of crystal size distribution on thermoelectric performance of Lanthanum-doped strontium titanate ( La - SrTiO 3) ceramics are investigated in this study. Thermoelectric performance measurement, coupled with microstructure studies, shows that the electrical conductivity strongly depends on the crystal size, potential barrier on the grain boundary and porosity. Meantime, because the average potential barriers height are increased along with the reduction of crystal size, the Seebeck coefficients are increased by energy filtering effect at the large number of grain boundaries. As a result, by controlling of crystal size distribution, ZT value of La - SrTiO 3 is improved.


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