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Large thermoelectric power factors and impact of texturing on the thermal conductivity in polycrystalline SnSe

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Date
28/02/2016
Author
Popuri, S. R.
Pollet, M.
Decourt, R.
Morrison, F. D.
Bennett, N. S.
Bos, J. W. G.
Keywords
QD Chemistry
Chemistry(all)
Materials Chemistry
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Abstract
Single crystals of SnSe have been reported to have very high thermoelectric efficiencies with a maximum figure merit zT = 2.5. This outstanding performance is due to ultralow thermal conductivities. We report on the synthesis of highly textured polycrystalline SnSe ingots with large single-crystal magnitude power factors, S2/ρ = 0.2-0.4 mW m-1 K-2 between 300-600 K, increasing to 0.9 mW m-1 K-2 at 800 K, and bulk thermal conductivity values κ300K = 1.5 W m-1 K-1. However, small SnSe ingots, which were measured in their entirety, were found to have a substantially reduced κ300K = 0.6 W m-1 K-1. Microscopy and diffraction revealed two distinct types of texturing within the hot-pressed ingots. In the interior, large coherent domains of SnSe platelets with a ∼45° orientation with respect to the pressing direction are found, while the platelets are preferentially oriented at 90° to the pressing direction at the top and bottom of the ingots. Fitting the κ(T) data suggests an increase in defect scattering for the smaller ingots, which is in keeping with the presence of regions of structural disorder due to the change in texturing. Combining the measured S2/ρ with the bulk ingot κ values yields zT = 1.1 at 873 K.
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Popuri , S R , Pollet , M , Decourt , R , Morrison , F D , Bennett , N S & Bos , J W G 2016 , ' Large thermoelectric power factors and impact of texturing on the thermal conductivity in polycrystalline SnSe ' Journal of Materials Chemistry C , vol 4 , no. 8 , pp. 1685-1691 . DOI: 10.1039/c6tc00204h
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6tc00204h
ISSN
2050-7534
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2016 the Authors. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6TC00204H
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This work was supported by the Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2012-576).
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10196

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