中国物理B ›› 2020, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (10): 106101-.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/aba09c

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Xiyang Li(李西阳)1,2, Zhigang Zhang(张志刚)1,3, Lunhua He(何伦华)1,3, Maxim Avdeev(任洋)4, Yang Ren5, Huaizhou Zhao(赵怀周)1, Fangwei Wang(王芳卫)1,2,3,†()   

  • 收稿日期:2020-05-21 修回日期:2020-06-18 接受日期:2020-06-29 出版日期:2020-10-05 发布日期:2020-10-05
  • 通讯作者: Fangwei Wang(王芳卫)

Grain size and structure distortion characterization of α-MgAgSb thermoelectric material by powder diffraction

Xiyang Li(李西阳)1,2, Zhigang Zhang(张志刚)1,3, Lunhua He(何伦华)1,3, Maxim Avdeev4, Yang Ren(任洋)5, Huaizhou Zhao(赵怀周)1, and Fangwei Wang(王芳卫)1,2,3,†   

  1. 1 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    2 School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China
    3 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
    4 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia
    5 X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
  • Received:2020-05-21 Revised:2020-06-18 Accepted:2020-06-29 Online:2020-10-05 Published:2020-10-05
  • Contact: Corresponding author. E-mail: fwwang@iphy.ac.cn
  • About author:
    †Corresponding author. E-mail: fwwang@iphy.ac.cn
    * Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11675255) and the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0401503).

Abstract:

Nanostructuring, structure distortion, and/or disorder are the main manipulation techniques to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity and improve the figure of merit of thermoelectric materials. A single-phase α-MgAgSb sample, MgAg0.97Sb0.99, with high thermoelectric performance in near room temperature region was synthesized through a high-energy ball milling with a hot-pressing method. Here, we report the average grain size of 24–28 nm and the accurate structure distortion, which are characterized by high-resolution neutron diffraction and synchrotron x-ray diffraction with Rietveld refinement data analysis. Both the small grain size and the structure distortion have a contribution to the low lattice thermal conductivity in MgAg0.97Sb0.99.

Key words: diffraction, grain size, structure distortion, thermoelectric material

中图分类号:  (X-ray diffraction)

  • 61.05.cp
61.05.fm (Neutron diffraction) 84.60.Rb (Thermoelectric, electrogasdynamic and other direct energy conversion)