Contrasting role of antimony and bismuth dopants on the thermoelectric performance of lead selenide

Lee, Yeseul; Lo, Shih -Han; Chen, Changqiang; Sun, Hui; Chung, Duck -Young; Chasapis, Thomas C.; Uher, Ctirad; Dravid, Vinayak P.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.

doi:10.1038/ncomms4640

Contrasting role of antimony and bismuth dopants on the thermoelectric performance of lead selenide

Journal Article · Fri May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4640· OSTI ID:1355912

Lee, Yeseul ^[1]; Lo, Shih -Han ^[1]; Chen, Changqiang ^[1]; Sun, Hui ^[2]; Chung, Duck -Young ^[3]; Chasapis, Thomas C. ^[1]; Uher, Ctirad ^[2]; Dravid, Vinayak P. ^[1]; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G. ^[4]

Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Increasing the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials is a key scientific driver behind a worldwide effort to enable heat to electricity power generation at competitive cost. Here we report an increased performance for antimony-doped lead selenide with a thermoelectric figure of merit of ~1.5 at 800 K. This is in sharp contrast to bismuth doped lead selenide, which reaches a figure of merit of <1. Substituting antimony or bismuth for lead achieves maximum power factors between ~23–27μW cm^–1 K^–2 at temperatures above 400 K. The addition of small amounts (~0.25 mol%) of antimony generates extensive nanoscale precipitates, whereas comparable amounts of bismuth results in very few or no precipitates. The antimony-rich precipitates are endotaxial in lead selenide, and appear remarkably effective in reducing the lattice thermal conductivity. As a result, the corresponding bismuth-containing samples exhibit smaller reduction in lattice thermal conductivity.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Materials Sciences and Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); Northwestern University; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); W.M. Keck Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1355912

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1161836
OSTI ID: 1384673

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 5; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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