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Published January 7, 2014 | Published
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Thermoelectric alloys between PbSe and PbS with effective thermal conductivity reduction and high figure of merit

Abstract

The n-type alloys between PbSe and PbS are studied. The effect of alloy composition on transport properties is evaluated and the results are interpreted with theories based on random atomic site substitution. The alloying in PbSe_(1−x)S_x brings thermal conductivity reduction, carrier mobility reduction as well as change of effective mass. When all these factors are evaluated, both experimentally and theoretically, the optimized thermoelectric performance is found to change gradually with alloy composition. High zT can be found in all PbSe_(1−x)S_x alloys. The possibility of achieving significant improvement of zT through alloying is also discussed.

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© 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry. Received 28th November 2013. Accepted 24th December 2013. First published online 03 Jan 2014. H. W. and G. J. S. would like to thank AFOSR MURI FA9550-10-1-0533 and NASA/JPL for funding. X. C. thanks the Natural Science Foundation Project of Chongqing CSTC (project no. cstc2011jjA50011) and Research Foundation of Chongqing University of Science & Technology (project no. CK2010Z08) for funding.

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