High temperature charge and thermal transport properties of the n-type thermoelectric material PbSe

Details High temperature charge and thermal transport properties of the n-type thermoelectric material PbSe High temperature charge and thermal transport properties of the n-type thermoelectric material PbSe

2011-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/1108.2109v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

14 figures, 2 tables, 12 pages, 53 references

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We present a detailed study of the charge transport, optical reflectivity, and thermal transport properties of n-type PbSe crystals. A strong scattering, mobility-limiting mechanism was revealed to be at play at temperatures above 500 K. The mechanism is indicative of complex electron-phonon interactions that cannot be explained by conventional acoustical phonon scattering alone. We applied the first order non-parabolicity approximation to extract the density of states effective mass as a function of doping both at room temperature and at 700 K. The results are compared to those of a parabolic band model and in the light of doping dependent studies of the infrared optical reflectivity. The thermal conductivity behavior as a function of temperature shows strong deviation from the expected Debye-Peierls high temperature behavior (umklapp dominated) indicating an additional heat carrying channel, which we associate with optical phonon excitations. The correlation of the thermal conductivity observations to the high temperature carrier mobility behavior is discussed. The thermoelectric figure of merit exhibits a promising value of ~0.8 at 700K at 1.5 x 10^{19}$ cm^-3.

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