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Title: A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: Fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization

Abstract

The study of thermoelectric materials spans condensed matter physics, materials science and engineering, and solid-state chemistry. The diversity of the participants and the inherent complexity of the topic mean that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a researcher to be fluent in all aspects of the field. This review, which grew out of a one-week summer school for graduate students, aims to provide an introduction and practical guidance for selected conceptual, synthetic, and characterization approaches and to craft a common umbrella of language, theory, and experimental practice for those engaged in the field of thermoelectric materials. This work does not attempt to cover all major aspects of thermoelectric materials research or review state-of-the-art thermoelectric materials. Rather, the topics discussed herein reflect the expertise and experience of the authors. We begin by discussing a universal approach to modeling electronic transport using Landauer theory. The core sections of the review are focused on bulk inorganic materials and include a discussion of effective strategies for powder and single crystal synthesis, the use of national synchrotron sources to characterize crystalline materials, error analysis, and modeling of transport data using an effective mass model, and characterization of phonon behavior using inelastic neutron scattering andmore » ultrasonic speed of sound measurements. The final core section discusses the challenges faced when synthesizing carbon-based samples and the measuring or interpretation of their transport properties. We conclude this review with a brief discussion of some of the grand challenges and opportunities that remain to be addressed in the study of thermoelectrics.« less

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  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Dept.
  2. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States). Chemistry and Nanoscience Center
  3. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Materials Dept.
  4. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division
  5. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
  6. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
  7. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Applied Energy Programs
  8. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States). Materials Science and Engineering
  9. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  10. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States). Dept. of Physics
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Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22) Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Science Foundation (NSF); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)
OSTI Identifier:
1461838
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1457477
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5900-70744
Journal ID: ISSN 1931-9401; TRN: US1902058
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; 1651668; 1334713; 1709158; 1729487; AC36-08GO28308; FG02-09ER46577; SC0001299; SC0008931; SC0016390
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Reviews
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1931-9401
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 42 ENGINEERING; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; electronic transport; ultrasonics; phonons; materials science; synchrotrons; acoustical measurements; neutron scattering

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Zevalkink, Alex, Smiadak, David M., Blackburn, Jeff L., Ferguson, Andrew J., Chabinyc, Michael L., Delaire, Olivier, Wang, Jian, Kovnir, Kirill, Martin, Joshua, Schelhas, Laura T., Sparks, Taylor D., Kang, Stephen D., Dylla, Maxwell T., Snyder, G. Jeffrey, Ortiz, Brenden R., and Toberer, Eric S. A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: Fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5021094.
Zevalkink, Alex, Smiadak, David M., Blackburn, Jeff L., Ferguson, Andrew J., Chabinyc, Michael L., Delaire, Olivier, Wang, Jian, Kovnir, Kirill, Martin, Joshua, Schelhas, Laura T., Sparks, Taylor D., Kang, Stephen D., Dylla, Maxwell T., Snyder, G. Jeffrey, Ortiz, Brenden R., & Toberer, Eric S. A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: Fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5021094
Zevalkink, Alex, Smiadak, David M., Blackburn, Jeff L., Ferguson, Andrew J., Chabinyc, Michael L., Delaire, Olivier, Wang, Jian, Kovnir, Kirill, Martin, Joshua, Schelhas, Laura T., Sparks, Taylor D., Kang, Stephen D., Dylla, Maxwell T., Snyder, G. Jeffrey, Ortiz, Brenden R., and Toberer, Eric S. Wed . "A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: Fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5021094. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461838.
@article{osti_1461838,
title = {A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: Fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization},
author = {Zevalkink, Alex and Smiadak, David M. and Blackburn, Jeff L. and Ferguson, Andrew J. and Chabinyc, Michael L. and Delaire, Olivier and Wang, Jian and Kovnir, Kirill and Martin, Joshua and Schelhas, Laura T. and Sparks, Taylor D. and Kang, Stephen D. and Dylla, Maxwell T. and Snyder, G. Jeffrey and Ortiz, Brenden R. and Toberer, Eric S.},
abstractNote = {The study of thermoelectric materials spans condensed matter physics, materials science and engineering, and solid-state chemistry. The diversity of the participants and the inherent complexity of the topic mean that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a researcher to be fluent in all aspects of the field. This review, which grew out of a one-week summer school for graduate students, aims to provide an introduction and practical guidance for selected conceptual, synthetic, and characterization approaches and to craft a common umbrella of language, theory, and experimental practice for those engaged in the field of thermoelectric materials. This work does not attempt to cover all major aspects of thermoelectric materials research or review state-of-the-art thermoelectric materials. Rather, the topics discussed herein reflect the expertise and experience of the authors. We begin by discussing a universal approach to modeling electronic transport using Landauer theory. The core sections of the review are focused on bulk inorganic materials and include a discussion of effective strategies for powder and single crystal synthesis, the use of national synchrotron sources to characterize crystalline materials, error analysis, and modeling of transport data using an effective mass model, and characterization of phonon behavior using inelastic neutron scattering and ultrasonic speed of sound measurements. The final core section discusses the challenges faced when synthesizing carbon-based samples and the measuring or interpretation of their transport properties. We conclude this review with a brief discussion of some of the grand challenges and opportunities that remain to be addressed in the study of thermoelectrics.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5021094},
journal = {Applied Physics Reviews},
number = 2,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Feasibility of a high stable PbTe:In semiconductor for thermoelectric energy applications
journal, June 2019

  • Parashchuk, T.; Dashevsky, Z.; Wojciechowski, K.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 125, Issue 24
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5106422

Evidence of nanostructuring and reduced thermal conductivity in n-type Sb-alloyed SnSe thermoelectric polycrystals
journal, July 2019

  • Gainza, J.; Serrano-Sánchez, F.; Gharsallah, M.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 126, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5108569

Impact of the scattering physics on the power factor of complex thermoelectric materials
journal, October 2019

  • Graziosi, Patrizio; Kumarasinghe, Chathurangi; Neophytou, Neophytos
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 126, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5116793

Hydride assisted synthesis of the high temperature thermoelectric phase: Yb 14 MgSb 11
journal, October 2019

  • Justl, Andrew P.; Cerretti, Giacomo; Bux, Sabah K.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 126, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5117291

Microwave heating and spark plasma sintering as non-conventional synthesis methods to access thermoelectric and magnetic materials
journal, December 2019

  • Siebert, Jan P.; Hamm, Christin M.; Birkel, Christina S.
  • Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 6, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5121442

Intrinsic and Extrinsically Limited Thermoelectric Transport within Semiconducting Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube Networks
journal, February 2019

  • Blackburn, Jeffrey L.; Kang, Stephen D.; Roos, Michael J.
  • Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 5, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201800910

Lattice hardening due to vacancy diffusion in (GeTe) m Sb 2 Te 3 alloys
journal, August 2019

  • Peng, Wanyue; Smiadak, David M.; Boehlert, Michael G.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 126, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5108659

Synthesis, structure, and transport properties of Ba 8 Cu 16 –  x Au x P 30 clathrate solid solution
journal, February 2020

  • Wang, Jian; Voyles, Jackson; Grzybowski, Scott
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 127, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5134080

Chalcogenide Thermoelectrics Empowered by an Unconventional Bonding Mechanism
text, January 2019


Seebeck and Figure of Merit Enhancement by Rare Earth Doping in Yb14-xRExZnSb11 (x = 0.5)
journal, March 2019

  • Kunz Wille, Elizabeth; Grewal, Navtej; Bux, Sabah
  • Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.3390/ma12050731

Energy Filtering of Charge Carriers: Current Trends, Challenges, and Prospects for Thermoelectric Materials
journal, May 2019

  • Gayner, Chhatrasal; Amouyal, Yaron
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 30, Issue 18
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201901789

Macroscopically aligned carbon nanotubes for flexible and high-temperature electronics, optoelectronics, and thermoelectrics
journal, December 2019

  • Gao, Weilu; Komatsu, Natsumi; Taylor, Lauren W.
  • Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 53, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab4ca4

A Brief Review on Measuring Methods of Thermal Conductivity of Organic and Hybrid Thermoelectric Materials
journal, June 2019

  • Wang, Hanfu; Chu, Weiguo; Chen, Guangming
  • Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 5, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201900167

Impact of the scattering physics on the power factor of complex thermoelectric materials
text, January 2019