Peierls distortion as a route to high thermoelectric performance in In(4)Se(3-delta) crystals.

Abstract:

:Thermoelectric energy harvesting-the transformation of waste heat into useful electricity-is of great interest for energy sustainability. The main obstacle is the low thermoelectric efficiency of materials for converting heat to electricity, quantified by the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT. The best available n-type materials for use in mid-temperature (500-900 K) thermoelectric generators have a relatively low ZT of 1 or less, and so there is much interest in finding avenues for increasing this figure of merit. Here we report a binary crystalline n-type material, In(4)Se(3-delta), which achieves the ZT value of 1.48 at 705 K-very high for a bulk material. Using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that this material supports a charge density wave instability which is responsible for the large anisotropy observed in the electric and thermal transport. The high ZT value is the result of the high Seebeck coefficient and the low thermal conductivity in the plane of the charge density wave. Our results suggest a new direction in the search for high-performance thermoelectric materials, exploiting intrinsic nanostructural bulk properties induced by charge density waves.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Rhyee JS,Lee KH,Lee SM,Cho E,Kim SI,Lee E,Kwon YS,Shim JH,Kotliar G

doi

10.1038/nature08088

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-06-18 00:00:00

pages

965-8

issue

7249

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

pii

nature08088

journal_volume

459

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