Paramagnon drag in high thermoelectric figure of merit Li-doped MnTe
Abstract
Local thermal magnetization fluctuations in Li-doped MnTe are found to increase its thermopower α strongly at temperatures up to 900 K. Below the Néel temperature (TN~ 307 K), MnTe is antiferromagnetic, and magnon drag contributes αmdto the thermopower, which scales as ~T3. Magnon drag persists into the paramagnetic state up to >3 ×TN because of long-lived, short-range antiferromagnet-like fluctuations (paramagnons) shown by neutron spectroscopy to exist in the paramagnetic state. The paramagnon lifetime is longer than the charge carrier–magnon interaction time; its spin-spin spatial correlation length is larger than the free-carrier effective Bohr radius and de Broglie wavelength. Thus, to itinerant carriers, paramagnons look like magnons and give a paramagnon-drag thermopower. This contribution results in an optimally doped material having a thermoelectric figure of merit ZT> 1 at T> ~900 K, the first material with a technologically meaningful thermoelectric energy conversion efficiency from a spin-caloritronic effect.
- Authors:
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- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
- North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1564212
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Science Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Publisher:
- AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Zheng, Y., Lu, T., Polash, Md M. H., Rasoulianboroujeni, M., Liu, N., Manley, Michael E., Deng, Y., Sun, P. J., Chen, X. L., Hermann, Raphael P., Vashaee, D., Heremans, J. P., and Zhao, H. Paramagnon drag in high thermoelectric figure of merit Li-doped MnTe. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aat9461.
Zheng, Y., Lu, T., Polash, Md M. H., Rasoulianboroujeni, M., Liu, N., Manley, Michael E., Deng, Y., Sun, P. J., Chen, X. L., Hermann, Raphael P., Vashaee, D., Heremans, J. P., & Zhao, H. Paramagnon drag in high thermoelectric figure of merit Li-doped MnTe. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat9461
Zheng, Y., Lu, T., Polash, Md M. H., Rasoulianboroujeni, M., Liu, N., Manley, Michael E., Deng, Y., Sun, P. J., Chen, X. L., Hermann, Raphael P., Vashaee, D., Heremans, J. P., and Zhao, H. Fri .
"Paramagnon drag in high thermoelectric figure of merit Li-doped MnTe". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat9461. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1564212.
@article{osti_1564212,
title = {Paramagnon drag in high thermoelectric figure of merit Li-doped MnTe},
author = {Zheng, Y. and Lu, T. and Polash, Md M. H. and Rasoulianboroujeni, M. and Liu, N. and Manley, Michael E. and Deng, Y. and Sun, P. J. and Chen, X. L. and Hermann, Raphael P. and Vashaee, D. and Heremans, J. P. and Zhao, H.},
abstractNote = {Local thermal magnetization fluctuations in Li-doped MnTe are found to increase its thermopower α strongly at temperatures up to 900 K. Below the Néel temperature (TN~ 307 K), MnTe is antiferromagnetic, and magnon drag contributes αmdto the thermopower, which scales as ~T3. Magnon drag persists into the paramagnetic state up to >3 ×TN because of long-lived, short-range antiferromagnet-like fluctuations (paramagnons) shown by neutron spectroscopy to exist in the paramagnetic state. The paramagnon lifetime is longer than the charge carrier–magnon interaction time; its spin-spin spatial correlation length is larger than the free-carrier effective Bohr radius and de Broglie wavelength. Thus, to itinerant carriers, paramagnons look like magnons and give a paramagnon-drag thermopower. This contribution results in an optimally doped material having a thermoelectric figure of merit ZT> 1 at T> ~900 K, the first material with a technologically meaningful thermoelectric energy conversion efficiency from a spin-caloritronic effect.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aat9461},
journal = {Science Advances},
number = 9,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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