TY - JOUR
T1 - Electronic and thermoelectric properties of CoSbS and FeSbS
AU - Parker, David
AU - May, Andrew F.
AU - Wang, Hsin
AU - McGuire, Michael A.
AU - Sales, Brian C.
AU - Singh, David J.
PY - 2013/1/18
Y1 - 2013/1/18
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.045205
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.045205
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84872979609
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 87
JO - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 045205
ER -