Significant suppression of thermal conductivity in FeSb2 by Te doping

Details Significant suppression of thermal conductivity in FeSb2 by Te doping Significant suppression of thermal conductivity in FeSb2 by Te doping

2011-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/1102.0553v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

3 Pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Physical Review B for Rapid Communication

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Kondo insulator like material FeSb2 was found to exhibit colossal Seebeck coefficient. It would have had huge potential in thermoelectric applications in cryogenic temperature range if it had not been for the large thermal conductivity. Here we studied the influence of Te doping at Sb site on thermal conductivity and thermoelectric effect in high quality single crystals. Surprisingly, only 5% Te doping suppresses thermal conductivity by two orders of magnitude, which may be attributed to the substitution disorder. Te doping also results in transition from an semiconductor to a metal. Consequently thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT ? 0:05) in Fe(Sb0:9Te0:1)2 at ? 100K was enhanced by about one order of magnitude when compared to ZT < 0:005 in undoped FeSb2.

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