Minkyu Lee, Seong-Mee Hwang, Se Jun Kim, Won-Seon Seo, Sang-Il Kim, Hyun-Sik Kim
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Abstract
Cu3SbSe4 is considered a promising thermoelectric material because of its large effective mass and low thermal conductivity, originating from its unique lattice structure. However, Cu3SbSe4 has intrinsically low carrier concentration and relatively high electric resistance which limit performance. Recently, a zT improvement in Cu3SbSe4 was reported where doping/precipitation is controlled by changing the content of the starting materials. However, the effect of these changes in starting content on electronic band structures has not been studied. Here, we investigate how the change in starting materials content (x varying from 6 to 20) affects band parameters like density-of-states effective mass (md *), non-degenerate mobility (μ0), weighted mobility (μW), and B-factor using the Single Parabolic Band (SPB) model. For x greater than 8, precipitation of the secondary phase (CuSe) was observed, and the band parameters changed differently for x greater than 8. The md * increases up to x = 8 and then rapidly decreases for x > 8. For μ0, an overall decrease is observed for increasing x, but the rate of decrease is suppressed for x > 8. The μW reaches the maximum at x = 8. As x increases, the experimental lattice thermal conductivity also increases, especially for x > 8. Therefore, the B-factor, which is directly related to the theoretical maximum zT, becomes maximum at = 8. Hence the SPB model predicts a maximum zT of 0.0484 for x = 8 at 300 K, which is 15.5% higher than the experimental zT of 0.0419, which can be achieved by tuning the Hall carrier concentration to 4.44 × 1019 cm-3.
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The Korean Journal of Metals and Materials is a representative Korean-language journal of the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials (KIM); it publishes domestic and foreign academic papers related to metals and materials, in abroad range of fields from metals and materials to nano-materials, biomaterials, functional materials, energy materials, and new materials, and its official ISO designation is Korean J. Met. Mater.