A low-temperature study of manganese-induced ferromagnetism and valence band convergence in tin telluride

Chi, Hang; Tan, Gangjian; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Li, Qiang; Uher, Ctirad

doi:10.1063/1.4948523

Title: A low-temperature study of manganese-induced ferromagnetism and valence band convergence in tin telluride

Journal Article · Mon May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4948523· OSTI ID:1248340

^[1]; Tan, Gangjian ^[2]; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G. ^[2]; Li, Qiang ^[3]; Uher, Ctirad ^[4]

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

In this study, SnTe is renowned for its promise in advancing energy-related technologies based on thermoelectricity and for its topological crystalline insulator character. Here, we demonstrate that each Mn atom introduces ~4 μ_B (Bohr magneton) of magnetic moment to Sn_1–xMn_xTe. The Curie temperatureTC reaches ~14K for x = 0.12, as observed in the field dependent hysteresis of magnetization and the anomalous Hall effect. In accordance with a modified two-band electronic Kane model, the light L-valence-band and the heavy Σ-valence-band gradually converge in energy with increasing Mn concentration, leading to a decreasing ordinary Hall coefficient R_H and a favorably enhanced Seebeck coefficient S at the same time. With the thermal conductivityκ lowered chiefly via point defects associated with the incorporation of Mn, the strategy of Mn doping also bodes well for efficient thermoelectric applications at elevated temperatures.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

View Accepted Manuscript (Publisher)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Revolutionary Materials for Solid State Energy Conversion (RMSSEC); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001054; SC00112704; SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1248340

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1250392; OSTI ID: 1255720

Report Number(s):: BNL-112117-2016-JA; APPLAB; DE-SC00112704

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 18; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 13 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (55)

Band Structure and Laser Action in ${Pb}_{x} {Sn}_{1 - x} Te$ Dimmock, J. O.; Melngailis, I.; Strauss, A. J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 26, p. 1193-1196 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.16.1193	journal	June 1966
Lattice dynamics and structure of GeTe, SnTe and PbTe Bauer Pereira, Paula; Sergueev, Ilya; Gorsse, Stéphane physica status solidi (b), Vol. 250, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.201248412	journal	December 2012
High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe Zhang, Q.; Liao, B.; Lan, Y. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 110, Issue 33, p. 13261-13266 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1305735110	journal	July 2013
Optimization of thermoelectric efficiency in SnTe: the case for the light band Zhou, Min; Gibbs, Zachary M.; Wang, Heng Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Vol. 16, Issue 38 https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CP02091J	journal	January 2014
High Thermoelectric Performance of p-Type SnTe via a Synergistic Band Engineering and Nanostructuring Approach Tan, Gangjian; Zhao, Li-Dong; Shi, Fengyuan Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja500860m	journal	May 2014
Extraordinary role of Hg in enhancing the thermoelectric performance of p-type SnTe Tan, Gangjian; Shi, Fengyuan; Doak, Jeff W. Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 8, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE01463D	journal	January 2015
Codoping in SnTe: Enhancement of Thermoelectric Performance through Synergy of Resonance Levels and Band Convergence Tan, Gangjian; Shi, Fengyuan; Hao, Shiqiang Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b00837	journal	April 2015
Valence Band Modification and High Thermoelectric Performance in SnTe Heavily Alloyed with MnTe Tan, Gangjian; Shi, Fengyuan; Hao, Shiqiang Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 35 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b07284	journal	August 2015
Synergistically optimized electrical and thermal transport properties of SnTe via alloying high-solubility MnTe Wu, Haijun; Chang, Cheng; Feng, Dan Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 8, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1039/C5EE02423D	journal	January 2015
Valence band engineering and thermoelectric performance optimization in SnTe by Mn-alloying via a zone-melting method He, Jun; Tan, Xiaojian; Xu, Jingtao Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 3, Issue 39 https://doi.org/10.1039/C5TA05535K	journal	January 2015
Band and scattering tuning for high performance thermoelectric Sn1−xMnxTe alloys Li, Wen; Chen, Zhiwei; Lin, Siqi Journal of Materiomics, Vol. 1, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2015.09.001	journal	December 2015
High Thermoelectric Performance SnTe–In ₂ Te ₃ Solid Solutions Enabled by Resonant Levels and Strong Vacancy Phonon Scattering Tan, Gangjian; Zeier, Wolfgang G.; Shi, Fengyuan Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 27, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03708	journal	November 2015
Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties in the Counter-Doped SnTe System with Strained Endotaxial SrTe Zhao, Li-Dong; Zhang, Xiao; Wu, Haijun Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 138, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b13276	journal	February 2016
Ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure of merit in SnSe crystals Zhao, Li-Dong; Lo, Shih-Han; Zhang, Yongsheng Nature, Vol. 508, Issue 7496, p. 373-377 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13184	journal	April 2014
Ultrahigh power factor and thermoelectric performance in hole-doped single-crystal SnSe Zhao, L.-D.; Tan, G.; Hao, S. Science, Vol. 351, Issue 6269, p. 141-144 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad3749	journal	November 2015
Broad temperature plateau for high ZTs in heavily doped p-type SnSe single crystals Peng, Kunling; Lu, Xu; Zhan, Heng Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 9, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1039/C5EE03366G	journal	January 2016
Anomalous Thermoelectric Power as Evidence for Two-Valence Bands in SnTe Brebrick, R. F.; Strauss, A. J. Physical Review, Vol. 131, Issue 1, p. 104-110 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.131.104	journal	July 1963
Valence band structure of SnTe Rogers, L. M. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 1, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/1/7/304	journal	July 1968
EVIDENCE THAT SnTe IS A SEMICONDUCTOR Kafalas, J. A.; Brebrick, R. F.; Strauss, A. J. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 4, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1753977	journal	March 1964
Topological crystalline insulators in the SnTe material class Hsieh, Timothy H.; Lin, Hsin; Liu, Junwei Nature Communications, Vol. 3, Article No. 982 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1969	journal	January 2012
Experimental realization of a topological crystalline insulator in SnTe Tanaka, Y.; Ren, Zhi; Sato, T. Nature Physics, Vol. 8, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2442	journal	September 2012
Topological Crystalline Insulators Fu, Liang Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.106802	journal	March 2011
Colloquium: Topological insulators Hasan, M. Z.; Kane, C. L. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 82, Issue 4, p. 3045-3067 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.82.3045	journal	November 2010
Topological insulators and superconductors Qi, Xiao-Liang; Zhang, Shou-Cheng Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.83.1057	journal	October 2011
Massive Dirac Fermion on the Surface of a Magnetically Doped Topological Insulator Chen, Y. L.; Chu, J. - H.; Analytis, J. G. Science, Vol. 329, Issue 5992 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1189924	journal	August 2010
Dirac-fermion-mediated ferromagnetism in a topological insulator Checkelsky, Joseph G.; Ye, Jianting; Onose, Yoshinori Nature Physics, Vol. 8, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2388	journal	August 2012
Imaging Dirac-mass disorder from magnetic dopant atoms in the ferromagnetic topological insulator Cr _x (Bi _0.1 Sb _0.9 ) _2-x Te ₃ Lee, Inhee; Kim, Chung Koo; Lee, Jinho Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 112, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1424322112	journal	January 2015
Experimental Observation of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator Chang, C. -Z.; Zhang, J.; Feng, X. Science, Vol. 340, Issue 6129 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1234414	journal	March 2013
Trajectory of the anomalous Hall effect towards the quantized state in a ferromagnetic topological insulator Checkelsky, J. G.; Yoshimi, R.; Tsukazaki, A. Nature Physics, Vol. 10, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3053	journal	August 2014
Large-Chern-Number Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Thin-Film Topological Crystalline Insulators Fang, Chen; Gilbert, Matthew J.; Bernevig, B. Andrei Physical Review Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.046801	journal	January 2014
Ferromagnetism above room temperature in bulk and transparent thin films of Mn-doped ZnO Sharma, Parmanand; Gupta, Amita; Rao, K. V. Nature Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat984	journal	September 2003
(Ga,Mn)As: A new diluted magnetic semiconductor based on GaAs Ohno, H.; Shen, A.; Matsukura, F. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 69, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.118061	journal	July 1996
Indication of ferromagnetism in molecular-beam-epitaxy-derived N-type GaMnN Overberg, Mark E.; Abernathy, Cammy R.; Pearton, Stephen J. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 79, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1397763	journal	August 2001
Carrier-concentration – induced ferromagnetism in PbSnMnTe Story, T.; Gała̧zka, R. R.; Frankel, R. B. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 56, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.777	journal	February 1986
A Group-IV Ferromagnetic Semiconductor: MnxGe1-x Park, Y. D. Science, Vol. 295, Issue 5555 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1066348	journal	January 2002
Development of ferromagnetism in the doped topological insulator ${Bi}_{2 - x} {Mn}_{x} {Te}_{3}$ Hor, Y. S.; Roushan, P.; Beidenkopf, H. Physical Review B, Vol. 81, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.195203	journal	May 2010
Ferromagnetic Ordering in Mn-Doped SnTe Crystals Inoue, Masasi; Ishii, Kiyoaki; Yagi, Hisao Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 43, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.43.903	journal	September 1977
Neutron-diffraction study of the carrier-concentration-induced ferromagnet-to-spin-glass transition in the diluted magnetic semiconductor ${Sn}_{1 - x}$ ${Mn}_{x}$ Te Vennix, C. W. H. M.; Frikkee, E.; Eggenkamp, P. J. T. Physical Review B, Vol. 48, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.48.3770	journal	August 1993
Low-temperature transport properties of Tl-doped Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ single crystals Chi, Hang; Liu, Wei; Sun, Kai Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.045202	journal	July 2013
Criterion for Ferromagnetism from Observations of Magnetic Isotherms Arrott, Anthony Physical Review, Vol. 108, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.108.1394	journal	December 1957
Thin-film ferromagnetic semiconductors based on Sb2−xVxTe3 with TC of 177K Zhou, Zhenhua; Chien, Yi-Jiunn; Uher, Ctirad Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 87, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2045561	journal	September 2005
Tuning the Temperature Domain of Phonon Drag in Thin Films by the Choice of Substrate Wang, Guoyu; Endicott, Lynn; Chi, Hang Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.046803	journal	July 2013
Complex thermoelectric materials Snyder, G. Jeffrey; Toberer, Eric S. Nature Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 2, p. 105-114 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2090	journal	February 2008
Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency in PbTe by Distortion of the Electronic Density of States Heremans, J. P.; Jovovic, V.; Toberer, E. S. Science, Vol. 321, Issue 5888, p. 554-557 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1159725	journal	July 2008
Understanding the role and interplay of heavy-hole and light-hole valence bands in the thermoelectric properties of PbSe Chasapis, Thomas C.; Lee, Yeseul; Hatzikraniotis, Euripides Physical Review B, Vol. 91, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.085207	journal	February 2015
Electronic transport properties of $PbTe$ and ${AgPb}_{m} {SbTe}_{2 + m}$ systems Bilc, D. I.; Mahanti, S. D.; Kanatzidis, M. G. Physical Review B, Vol. 74, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.125202	journal	September 2006
High Thermoelectric Efficiency of n-type PbS Wang, Heng; Schechtel, Eugen; Pei, Yanzhong Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201200683	journal	November 2012
Total-energy and band-structure calculations for the semimagnetic ${Cd}_{1 - x}$ ${Mn}_{x}$ Te semiconductor alloy and its binary constituents Wei, Su-Huai; Zunger, Alex Physical Review B, Vol. 35, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.35.2340	journal	February 1987
Convergence of electronic bands for high performance bulk thermoelectrics Pei, Yanzhong; Shi, Xiaoya; LaLonde, Aaron Nature, Vol. 473, Issue 7345, p. 66-69 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09996	journal	May 2011
Convergence of Conduction Bands as a Means of Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance of $n$ -Type ${Mg}_{2} {Si}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x}$ Solid Solutions Liu, Wei; Tan, Xiaojian; Yin, Kang Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.166601	journal	April 2012
Structure of the second valence band in PbTe Sitter, H.; Lischka, K.; Heinrich, H. Physical Review B, Vol. 16, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.16.680	journal	July 1977
Hole contribution to the elastic constants of SnTe Seddon, T.; Gupta, S. C.; Saunders, G. A. Solid State Communications, Vol. 20, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098(76)91701-4	journal	October 1976
The lattice dynamics of tin telluride Cowley, E. R.; Darby, J. K.; Pawley, G. S. Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, Vol. 2, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/2/11/304	journal	November 1969
The best nanoparticle size distribution for minimum thermal conductivity Zhang, Hang; Minnich, Austin J. Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep08995	journal	March 2015
Topological crystalline insulator nanostructures Shen, Jie; Cha, Judy J. Nanoscale, Vol. 6, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NR05124F	journal	January 2014

Cited By (3)

Coupling of charge carriers with magnetic entropy for power factor enhancement in Mn doped Sn _1.03 Te for thermoelectric applications Acharya, Somnath; Anwar, Sharmistha; Mori, Takao Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 6, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tc00788h	journal	January 2018
Ferromagnetic phase transition in topological crystalline insulator thin films: Interplay of anomalous Hall angle and magnetic anisotropy Adhikari, R.; Volobuev, V. V.; Faina, B. Physical Review B, Vol. 100, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.100.134422	journal	October 2019
Ferromagnetic phase transition in topological crystalline insulator thin films: interplay of anomalous Hall angle and magnetic anisotropy Adhikari, R.; Volobuev, V. V.; Faina, B. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1907.05716	text	January 2019

Similar Records

A low-temperature study of manganese-induced ferromagnetism and valence band convergence in tin telluride

Journal Article · Mon May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:1248340

Chi, Hang; Tan, Gangjian; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; +2 more

Valence Band Modification and High Thermoelectric Performance in SnTe Heavily Alloyed with MnTe

Journal Article · Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · OSTI ID:1248340

Tan, Gangjian; Shi, Fengyuan; Hao, Shiqiang; +7 more

Understanding the role and interplay of heavy-hole and light-hole valence bands in the thermoelectric properties of PbSe

Journal Article · Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics · OSTI ID:1248340

Chasapis, Thomas C.; Lee, Yeseul; Hatzikraniotis, Euripides; +4 more

Related Subjects

25 ENERGY STORAGE
SnTe
thermoelectric
ferromagnetism
band convergence
II-VI semiconductors
doping
phonons
band structure
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Title: A low-temperature study of manganese-induced ferromagnetism and valence band convergence in tin telluride

Citation Formats

References (55)

Cited By (3)

Similar Records

Related Subjects