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Lu, Yufu, Chen, Shaoping, Wu, Wenchang, Du, Zhengliang, Chao, Yimin 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8488-2690 and Cui, Jiaolin
(2017)
Enhanced thermoelectric performance of a chalcopyrite compound CuIn3Se5-xTex (x=0~0.5) through crystal structure engineering.
Scientific Reports, 7.
ISSN 2045-2322
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Abstract
In this work the chalcopyrite CuIn3Se5−xTex (x = 0~0.5) with space group through isoelectronic substitution of Te for Se have been prepared, and the crystal structure dilation has been observed with increasing Te content. This substitution allows the anion position displacement ∆u = 0.25-u to be zero at x ≈ 0.15. However, the material at x = 0.1 (∆u = 0.15 × 10−3), which is the critical Te content, presents the best thermoelectric (TE) performance with dimensionless figure of merit ZT = 0.4 at 930 K. As x value increases from 0.1, the quality factor B, which informs about how large a ZT can be expected for any given material, decreases, and the TE performance degrades gradually due to the reduction in nH and enhancement in κL. Combining with the ZTs from several chalcopyrite compounds, it is believable that the best thermoelectric performance can be achieved at a certain ∆u value (∆u ≠ 0) for a specific space group if their crystal structures can be engineered.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | thermoelectric performance,crystal structure engineering,chalcopyrite cuin3se5,hall carrier concentration |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Physical and Analytical Chemistry (former - to 2017) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Chemistry of Materials and Catalysis Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Energy Materials Laboratory |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2016 00:05 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 12:25 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61729 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep40224 |
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