Thermoelectric transport in surface- and antimony-doped bismuth telluride nanoplates

Pettes, Michael Thompson; Kim, Jaehyun; Wu, Wei; Bustillo, Karen C.; Shi, Li

doi:10.1063/1.4955400

Title: Thermoelectric transport in surface- and antimony-doped bismuth telluride nanoplates

Journal Article · Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · APL Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4955400· OSTI ID:1272641

; Kim, Jaehyun; Wu, Wei; Bustillo, Karen C.;

We report the in-plane thermoelectric properties of suspended (Bi_1–xSb_x)₂Te₃ nanoplates with x ranging from 0.07 to 0.95 and thicknesses ranging from 9 to 42 nm. The results presented here reveal a trend of increasing p-type behavior with increasing antimony concentration, and a maximum Seebeck coefficient and thermoelectric figure of merit at x ~ 0.5. We additionally tuned extrinsic doping of the surface using a tetrafluoro-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F₄-TCNQ) coating. As a result, the lattice thermal conductivity is found to be below that for undoped ultrathin Bi₂Te₃ nanoplates of comparable thickness and in the range of 0.2–0.7 W m^–1 K^–1 at room temperature.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1272641

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1329710; OSTI ID: 1420529

Journal Information:: APL Materials, Journal Name: APL Materials Vol. 4 Journal Issue: 10; ISSN 2166-532X

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Language:: English

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