Significantly enhanced thermoelectric properties of p-type Mg3Sb2 via co-doping of Na and Zn
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Abstract The effects of co-doping Na and Zn into thermoelectric Mg3Sb2 were investigated. Na was found to be a very effective hole dopant in our previous study. However, the lattice thermal conductivity noticeably increases limiting further improvement of the figure of merit. Here, we show that isoelectronic Zn doping weakens the polar covalent bonding and ionized impurity scattering and leads to a 3 fold increase of carrier mobility. Lattice thermal conductivity, due to the introduced ionic mass contrast between Zn2+ and Mg2+, is supressed significantly especially at lower temperature range between 300 K and 450 K. The indicator of the average performance, the (PF)eng (engineering power factor) and (ZT)eng (engineering ZT), were showed ∼50% and ∼76% improvement, respectively. The same strategy of co-doping two different elements with different functions could also be applied to other thermoelectric Zintl compounds typically with low carrier concentration and carrier mobility for even higher thermoelectric properties.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices · Thermal properties of materials · Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
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