首页|Resonance states and hyperconvergence induced by tungsten doping in SnTe: Multiband transport leading to a propitious thermoelectric material
Resonance states and hyperconvergence induced by tungsten doping in SnTe: Multiband transport leading to a propitious thermoelectric material
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? 2022 Elsevier B.V.Discovery of dopants which can engineer the electronic structure of the thermoelectric materials beneficially to improve the figure of merit has been receiving a lot of attention. In this work, we study one such unique dopant, tungsten in SnTe by implementing first principles density functional theory approach. We predict that tungsten is a n-type resonant dopant which not only increases the band gap but causes convergence of valence sub-bands leading to increased Seebeck co-efficient due to increase in the effective mass and decrease in the bipolar conduction. We show for the first time, the introduction of hyperconvergence in the conduction sub-bands, a feature which was observed only in valence bands of SnTe and GeTe. In addition to the above features, it also introduces multiple electronic valleys near the Fermi level excluding the use of a co-dopant to exploit the benefits of the electronic structure engineering. A maximum ZT of ~1.61 theoretically achieved by tuning the chemical potential at 800 K makes this material worth being explored experimentally.
Density functional theoryMultiband transportResonance levelsTin tellurideTransport properties
Shenoy U.S.、D. G.K.、Bhat D.K.
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Department of Chemistry College of Engineering and Technology Srinivas University
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Department of Chemistry National Institute of Technology Karnataka
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