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Dalton Trans
; 44(7): 3185-9, 2015 Feb 21.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25579326
RESUMO
We investigated the thermoelectric properties of Cl-doped polycrystalline compounds In4Pb0.01Sn0.03Se2.9Clx (x = 0.02, 0.04, and 0.06). X-ray diffraction measurement shows a gradual change in lattice volume for x ≤ 0.04 without any impurity phases indicating a systemic change in Cl doping. The Cl doping in the compounds has the effect of increasing carrier concentration and the effective mass of carriers, resulting in an increase in power factor at a high temperature (â¼700 K). Because of the increased electrical conductivity at a high temperature, the dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit ZT reaches 1.25 at 723 K for the x = 0.04 Cl-doped compound, which is a relatively high value for n-type polycrystalline materials.