Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of the American Chemical Society
5 years ago

High Thermoelectric Performance in Electron-Doped AgBi3S5 with Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

High Thermoelectric Performance in Electron-Doped AgBi3S5 with Ultralow Thermal Conductivity
Chris Wolverton, Gangjian Tan, Jing Zhao, Shiqiang Hao, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
We report electron-doped AgBi3S5 as a new high-performance nontoxic thermoelectric material. This compound features exceptionally low lattice thermal conductivities of 0.5–0.3 W m–1 K–1 in the temperature range of 300–800 K, which is ascribed to its unusual vibrational properties: “double rattling” phonon modes associated with Ag and Bi atoms. Chlorine doping at anion sites acts as an efficient electron donor, significantly enhancing the electrical properties of AgBi3S5. In the carrier concentration range (5 × 1018–2 × 1019 cm–3) investigated in this study, the trends in Seebeck coefficient can be reasonably understood using a single parabolic band model with the electron effective mass of 0.22 me (me is the free electron mass). Samples of 0.33% Cl-doped AgBi3S5 prepared by spark plasma sintering show a thermoelectric figure of merit of ∼1.0 at 800 K.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b02399

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b02399

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