Metal phosphides as potential thermoelectric materials

Pöhls, Jan-Hendrik; Faghaninia, Alireza; Petretto, Guido; Aydemir, Umut; Ricci, Francesco; Li, Guodong; Wood, Max; Ohno, Saneyuki; Hautier, Geoffroy; Snyder, G. Jeffrey; Rignanese, Gian-Marco; Jain, Anubhav; White, Mary Anne

doi:10.1039/c7tc03948d

Metal phosphides as potential thermoelectric materials

Journal Article · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2017 · Journal of Materials Chemistry C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tc03948d· OSTI ID:1493900

Pöhls, Jan-Hendrik ^[1]; ^[2]; Petretto, Guido ^[3]; Aydemir, Umut ^[4]; Ricci, Francesco ^[3]; Li, Guodong ^[5]; Wood, Max ^[4]; Ohno, Saneyuki ^[4]; ^[3]; ^[4]; ^[3]; ^[2]; ^[1]

Canada; Dalhousie Univ., Halifax (Canada). Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Energy Technologies Area
Univ. Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Inst. of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Wuhan Univ. of Technology (China). State Key Lab. of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing

There still exists a crucial need for new thermoelectric materials to efficiently recover waste heat as electrical energy. Although metal phosphides are stable and can exhibit excellent electronic properties, they have traditionally been overlooked as thermoelectrics due to expectations of displaying high thermal conductivity. Based on high-throughput computational screening of the electronic properties of over 48,000 inorganic compounds, we find that several metal phosphides offer considerable promise as thermoelectric materials, with excellent potential electronic properties (e.g. due to multiple valley degeneracy). In addition to the electronic band structure, the phonon dispersion curves of various metal phosphides were computed indicating low-frequency acoustic modes that could lead to low thermal conductivity. Several metal phosphides exhibit promising thermoelectric properties. The computed electronic and thermal properties were compared to experiments to test the reliability of the calculations indicating that the predicted thermoelectric properties are semi-quantitative. As a complete experimental study of the thermoelectric properties in MPs, cubic-NiP₂ was synthesized and the low predicted lattice thermal conductivity (~1.2 W m^-1 K^-1 at 700 K) was confirmed. The computed Seebeck coefficient is in agreement with experiments over a range of temperatures and the phononic dispersion curve of c-NiP₂ is consistent with the experimental heat capacity. The predicted high thermoelectric performance in several metal phosphides and the low thermal conductivity measured in NiP₂ encourage further investigations of thermoelectric properties of metal phosphides.

Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1493900

Journal Information:: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Journal Name: Journal of Materials Chemistry C Journal Issue: 47 Vol. 5; ISSN JMCCCX; ISSN 2050-7526

Publisher:: Royal Society of Chemistry

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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