State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Dec 21;133(50):20112-5. doi: 10.1021/ja2091195. Epub 2011 Nov 22.
A significant enhancement of thermoelectric performance in layered oxyselenides BiCuSeO was achieved. The electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient of BiCu(1-x)SeO (x = 0-0.1) indicate that the carriers were introduced in the (Cu(2)Se(2))(2-) layer by Cu deficiencies. The maximum of electrical conductivity is 3 × 10(3) S m(-1) for Bicu(0.975)Seo at 650 °C, much larger than 470 S m(-1) for pristine BiCuSeO. Featured with very low thermal conductivity (∼0.5 W m(-1) K(-1)) and a large Seebeck coefficient (+273 μV K(-1)), ZT at 650 °C is significantly increased from 0.50 for pristine BiCuSeO to 0.81 for BiCu(0.975)SeO by introducing Cu deficiencies, which makes it a promising candidate for medium temperature thermoelectric applications.
在层状氧硒化物 BiCuSeO 中实现了热电性能的显著增强。BiCu(1-x)SeO(x=0-0.1)的电导率和 Seebeck 系数表明,载流子通过 Cu 缺乏被引入到(Cu2Se2)2-层中。在 650°C 时,Bicu(0.975)Seo 的最大电导率为 3×103 S m-1,远大于原始 BiCuSeO 的 470 S m-1。具有非常低的热导率(约 0.5 W m-1 K-1)和较大的 Seebeck 系数(+273 μV K-1),通过引入 Cu 缺乏,在 650°C 时 ZT 值从原始 BiCuSeO 的 0.50 显著增加到 BiCu(0.975)SeO 的 0.81,使其成为中温热电应用的有前途的候选材料。