Electronic Structures and Thermoelectric Properties of Layered Chalcogenide PbBi4Te7 from First Principles
- Authors
- Quang Van Tran; Kim, Miyoung
- Issue Date
- Feb-2016
- Publisher
- KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC
- Keywords
- First-principles calculations; Electronic structure; Thermoelectric device
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY, v.68, no.3, pp 393 - 397
- Pages
- 5
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
- Volume
- 68
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 393
- End Page
- 397
- URI
- https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/9932
- DOI
- 10.3938/jkps.68.393
- ISSN
- 0374-4884
1976-8524
- Abstract
- The electronic structures and the thermoelectric (TE) properties of the ternary chalcogenide PbBi4Te7 are investigated by using first-principles calculations within the density functional theory and the solutions of semi-classical Boltzmann equation. Employing the screened-exchange local density approximation, we found that PbBi4Te7 to be a narrow-gap semiconductor with an indirect band gap of 0.11 eV. The combination of light and heavy valence bands near the band edge gives rise to large Seebeck coefficients, S, for p-type doping, which is found to be improved by 11% from that of Bi2Te3 at room temperature (RT). Moreover, in contrast to conventional Bi2Te3 where the value of S decreases rapidly with temperatures higher than RT, the values of S increases with temperature reaching up to 350 mu VK-1 at 500 K indicating that PbBi4Te7 is a promising TE material with operating temperatures above RT. Our result also reveals that the intrinsic layered structure results in a prominent anisotropy in the TE coefficients, implying that the TE performance can be optimized by using the transport direction, as well as the type and the level of doping.
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