Electronic and thermoelectric properties of CoSbS and FeSbS
- ORNL
We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of the potential thermoelectric performance of three transition metal antimonide sulfides, CoSbS, FeSbS and NiSbS. From theory we find that NiSbS is metallic and hence of little interest regarding thermoelectric performance. CoSbS and FeSbS are both semiconductors with rather heavy valence and conduction bands, whose thermopower can exceed 200 $$\mu$$V/K at temperatures of 900 K and carrier concentrations of 10$$^{21}$$cm$$^{-3}$$, which is similar to the $$n$$-type high performance thermoelectric filled skutterudites. The experimental results on several non-optimized $$n$$-type CoSbS samples confirm its semiconducting nature and indicate a potential for good high temperature thermoelectric performance, finding a ZT for two of the samples of 0.35 at 773 K. Substantially higher ZT values may be possible if the lattice thermal conductivity can be reduced by alloying and the effects of extrinsic scattering, which appear to be substantial in the experimental results, are reduced.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1073669
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review B, Vol. 87, Issue 4; ISSN 1098--0121
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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