中国物理B ›› 2018, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (4): 47212-047212.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/4/047212

所属专题: SPECIAL TOPIC — Recent advances in thermoelectric materials and devices

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Enhanced thermoelectric performance in p-type Mg3Sb2 via lithium doping

Hao Wang(王浩), Jin Chen(陈进), Tianqi Lu(陆天奇), Kunjie Zhu(朱坤杰), Shan Li(李珊), Jun Liu(刘军), and Huaizhou Zhao(赵怀周)   

  1. 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
    2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 收稿日期:2018-01-22 修回日期:2018-03-05 出版日期:2018-04-05 发布日期:2018-04-05
  • 通讯作者: Jun Liu, Jun Liu
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1601213 and 51572287) and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDB-SSW-SLH013).

Enhanced thermoelectric performance in p-type Mg3Sb2 via lithium doping

Hao Wang(王浩)1,2, Jin Chen(陈进)1,2, Tianqi Lu(陆天奇)2, Kunjie Zhu(朱坤杰)1, Shan Li(李珊)2, Jun Liu(刘军)1, †, and Huaizhou Zhao(赵怀周)2,‡   

  1. 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
    2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2018-01-22 Revised:2018-03-05 Online:2018-04-05 Published:2018-04-05
  • Contact: †Jun Liu: liujun4982004@csu.edu.cn; ‡Huaizhou Zhao:Hzhao@iphy.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1601213 and 51572287) and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDB-SSW-SLH013).

摘要: The Zintl compound Mg3Sb2 has been recently identified as promising thermoelectric material owing to its high thermoelectric performance and cost-effective, nontoxicity and environment friendly characteristics. However, the intrinsically p-type Mg3Sb2 shows low figure of merit (zT=0.23 at 723 K) for its poor electrical conductivity. In this study, a series of Mg3-xLixSb2 bulk materials have been prepared by high-energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. Electrical transport measurements on these materials revealed significant improvement on the power factor with respect to the undoped sample, which can be essentially attributed to the increased carrier concentration, leading to a maximum zT of 0.59 at 723 K with the optimum doping level x=0.01. Additionally, the engineering zT and energy conversion efficiency are calculated to be 0.235 and 4.89%, respectively. To our best knowledge, those are the highest values of all reported p-type Mg3Sb2-based compounds with single element doping.

关键词: p-type Mg3Sb2 Zintl compounds, lithium doping, carrier concentration, enhanced thermoelectric properties

Abstract: The Zintl compound Mg3Sb2 has been recently identified as promising thermoelectric material owing to its high thermoelectric performance and cost-effective, nontoxicity and environment friendly characteristics. However, the intrinsically p-type Mg3Sb2 shows low figure of merit (zT=0.23 at 723 K) for its poor electrical conductivity. In this study, a series of Mg3-xLixSb2 bulk materials have been prepared by high-energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. Electrical transport measurements on these materials revealed significant improvement on the power factor with respect to the undoped sample, which can be essentially attributed to the increased carrier concentration, leading to a maximum zT of 0.59 at 723 K with the optimum doping level x=0.01. Additionally, the engineering zT and energy conversion efficiency are calculated to be 0.235 and 4.89%, respectively. To our best knowledge, those are the highest values of all reported p-type Mg3Sb2-based compounds with single element doping.

Key words: p-type Mg3Sb2 Zintl compounds, lithium doping, carrier concentration, enhanced thermoelectric properties

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