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Thermoelectric Properties of Ge-doped Cu3SbSe4

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2011

Eric J. Skoug ,
Jeffrey D. Cain  and
Donald T. Morelli
Eric J. Skoug
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 U.S.A.
Jeffrey D. Cain
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 U.S.A.
Donald T. Morelli
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 U.S.A.
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Abstract

Ternary variations of the II-VI zincblende semiconductors have received little attention for thermoelectric applications. Here we present the first systematic doping study on Cu3SbSe4, a zincblende-like ternary semiconductor with a unit cell four times larger than the parent II-VI compounds. The large unit cell of Cu3SbSe4 results in a low room temperature thermal conductivity (~3.0 W/m*K) and its large hole effective mass produces a Seebeck coefficient approaching 500 μV/K in the undoped compound. Our results show that Ge is an effective p-type dopant in Cu3SbSe4, and the power factor reaches nearly 16 μW/cm*K2 at 630K when 3% Ge is added, rivaling that of state-of-the-art thermoelectric materials at this temperature.

Keywords

thermoelectricthermal conductivitypowder processing
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1314: Symposium LL – Thermoelectric Materials for Solid-State Power Generation and Refrigeration , 2011 , mrsf10-1314-ll07-10
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011

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