First-principles study on the origin of large thermopower in hole-doped LaRhO3 and CuRhO2

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2008-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/0807.5014v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

7 pages, to be published J. Phys.: Cond. Matt., Proc. QSD 2008

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/21/6/064223

Based on first-principles calculations, we study the origin of the large thermopower in Ni-doped LaRhO3 and Mg-doped CuRhO2. We calculate the band structure and construct the maximally localized Wannier functions from which a tight binding Hamiltonian is obtained. The Seebeck coefficient is calculated within the Boltzmann's equation approach using this effective Hamiltonian. For LaRhO3, we find that the Seebeck coefficient remains nearly constant within a large hole concentration range, which is consistent with the experimental observation. For CuRhO2, the overall temperature dependence of the calculated Seebeck coefficient is in excellent agreement with the experiment. The origin of the large thermopower is discussed.

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