中国物理B ›› 2014, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 17201-017201.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/1/017201

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Theoretical study of thermoelectric properties of MoS2

郭怀红, 杨腾, 陶鹏, 张志东   

  1. Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research and International Center for Materials Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • 收稿日期:2013-08-12 修回日期:2013-09-26 出版日期:2013-11-12 发布日期:2013-11-12
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11004201 and 51331006), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB933103), and the IMR SYNL-Young Merit Scholars and T. S. Kê Research Grant, China.

Theoretical study of thermoelectric properties of MoS2

Guo Huai-Hong (郭怀红), Yang Teng (杨腾), Tao Peng (陶鹏), Zhang Zhi-Dong (张志东)   

  1. Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research and International Center for Materials Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Received:2013-08-12 Revised:2013-09-26 Online:2013-11-12 Published:2013-11-12
  • Contact: Yang Teng E-mail:yangteng@imr.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11004201 and 51331006), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB933103), and the IMR SYNL-Young Merit Scholars and T. S. Kê Research Grant, China.

摘要: We systematically studied the thermoelectric properties of MoS2 with doping based on the Boltzmann transport theory and first-principles calculations. We obtained an optimal doping region (around 1019 cm-3) for thermoelectric properties along in-plane and cross-plane directions. MoS2 in the optimal doping region has a vanishingly small anisotropy of thermopower possibly due to the decoupling of in-plane and cross-plane conduction channels, but big anisotropies of electrical conductivity σ and electronic thermal conductivity κe arising from the anisotropic electronic scattering time. The κe is comparable to the lattice counterpart κl in the plane, while κl dominates over κe across the plane. The figure of merit ZT can reach 0.1 at around 700 K with in-plane direction preferred by doping.

关键词: MoS2, thermoelectric properties, doping, anisotropy

Abstract: We systematically studied the thermoelectric properties of MoS2 with doping based on the Boltzmann transport theory and first-principles calculations. We obtained an optimal doping region (around 1019 cm-3) for thermoelectric properties along in-plane and cross-plane directions. MoS2 in the optimal doping region has a vanishingly small anisotropy of thermopower possibly due to the decoupling of in-plane and cross-plane conduction channels, but big anisotropies of electrical conductivity σ and electronic thermal conductivity κe arising from the anisotropic electronic scattering time. The κe is comparable to the lattice counterpart κl in the plane, while κl dominates over κe across the plane. The figure of merit ZT can reach 0.1 at around 700 K with in-plane direction preferred by doping.

Key words: MoS2, thermoelectric properties, doping, anisotropy

中图分类号:  (Thermoelectric and thermomagnetic effects)

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