Seebeck and figure of merit enhancement in nanostructured antimony telluride by antisite defect suppression through sulfur doping

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4523-4529

  Mehta, Rutvik J ^a   Zhang, Yanliang ^a   Zhu, Hong ^b   Parker, David S ^c   Belley, Matthew ^a   Singh, David J ^c   Ramprasad, Ramamurthy ^b   Borca Tasciuc, Theodorian ^a   Ramanath, Ganpati ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

antimony telluride; antisite defects; first principle transport calculations; high figure of merit ZT; Nanobulk thermoelectrics; sulfur doping

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SITE DEFECT; ANTIMONY TELLURIDE; FIGURE OF MERITS; SULFUR DOPING; THERMOELECTRICS; TRANSPORT CALCULATION;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; POINT DEFECTS; SULFUR; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

DEFECTS;

ANTIMONY; NANOMATERIAL; SULFUR; TELLURIUM; TELLUROUS ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTIMONY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFUR; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TELLURIUM; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84866325327     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301639t     Document Type: Article

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