Achieving high thermoelectric properties of Bi2S3 via InCl3 doping
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Bi2S3, with earth-abundant compositions and a low thermal conductivity, is regarded as a candidate thermoelectric material. In this work, Bi2S3 samples that were doped with x % mol InCl3 were successfully fabricated via a mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering process. InCl3, as an n-type donor dopant, was added to the Bi2S3 system to improve its electrical transport properties and optimize its thermal conductivity. Upon doping, the electrical conductivity of Bi2S3 doped with 1 mol% InCl3 reaches up to 62 Scm−1, and the Seebeck coefficient maintains a relatively large value of −244 μV K−1 at 673 K, which results in a maximum power factor of 363 μW m−1 K−2. Furthermore, due to a simultaneously reduced thermal conductivity at high temperature, a ZT peak of 0.57 is obtained at 673 K along the parallel to the press direction for the sample doped with 1.0 mol% InCl3, which is almost four times higher than that of pristine Bi2S3 (0.14 at 673 K). The elastic properties and Debye temperature of Bi2S3 are also calculated to analyze the origin of the intrinsically low thermal conductivity and are compared to those of other thermoelectric materials with a low thermal conductivity.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices · Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films · Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties
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