Electronic and thermoelectric properties of CoSbS and FeSbS

David Parker, Andrew F. May, Hsin Wang, Michael A. McGuire, Brian C. Sales, David J. Singh

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Abstract

We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of the potential thermoelectric performance of three transition metal antimonide sulfides, CoSbS, FeSbS, and NiSbS. From theory we find that NiSbS is metallic and hence of little interest regarding thermoelectric performance. CoSbS and FeSbS are both semiconductors with rather heavy valence and conduction bands, whose thermopower can exceed 200 μV/K at temperatures of 900 K and carrier concentrations of 1021cm-3, which is similar to the n-type high performance thermoelectric filled skutterudites. The experimental results on several non-optimized n-type CoSbS samples confirm its semiconducting nature and indicate a potential for good high temperature thermoelectric performance, finding a ZT for two of the samples of 0.35 at 773 K. Substantially higher ZT values may be possible if the lattice thermal conductivity can be reduced by alloying and the effects of extrinsic scattering, which appear to be substantial in the experimental results, are reduced.

Original languageEnglish
Article number045205
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume87
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 18 2013

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