Connecting thermoelectric performance and topological-insulator behavior: Bi2Te3 and Bi2Te2Se from first principles
Abstract
Thermoelectric performance is of interest for numerous applications such as waste-heat recovery and solid-state energy conversion and will be seen to be closely connected to topological-insulator behavior. In this paper, we here report first-principles transport and defect calculations for Bi2Te2Se in relation to Bi2Te3. The two compounds are found to contain remarkably different electronic structures in spite of being isostructural and isoelectronic. We also discuss these results in terms of the topological-insulator characteristics of these compounds.
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1265299
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- OSTI ID: 1180166
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- AC05-00OR22725
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- Accepted Manuscript
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- Physical Review Applied
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- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2331-7019
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- English
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
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Shi, Hongliang, Parker, David S., Du, Mao-Hua, and Singh, David J. Connecting thermoelectric performance and topological-insulator behavior: Bi2Te3 and Bi2Te2Se from first principles. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.014004.
Shi, Hongliang, Parker, David S., Du, Mao-Hua, & Singh, David J. Connecting thermoelectric performance and topological-insulator behavior: Bi2Te3 and Bi2Te2Se from first principles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.014004
Shi, Hongliang, Parker, David S., Du, Mao-Hua, and Singh, David J. Tue .
"Connecting thermoelectric performance and topological-insulator behavior: Bi2Te3 and Bi2Te2Se from first principles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.014004. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1265299.
@article{osti_1265299,
title = {Connecting thermoelectric performance and topological-insulator behavior: Bi2Te3 and Bi2Te2Se from first principles},
author = {Shi, Hongliang and Parker, David S. and Du, Mao-Hua and Singh, David J.},
abstractNote = {Thermoelectric performance is of interest for numerous applications such as waste-heat recovery and solid-state energy conversion and will be seen to be closely connected to topological-insulator behavior. In this paper, we here report first-principles transport and defect calculations for Bi2Te2Se in relation to Bi2Te3. The two compounds are found to contain remarkably different electronic structures in spite of being isostructural and isoelectronic. We also discuss these results in terms of the topological-insulator characteristics of these compounds.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.014004},
journal = {Physical Review Applied},
number = 1,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {2015},
month = {1}
}
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