Strong anharmonicity and medium-temperature thermoelectric efficiency in antiperovskite Ca3XN (X = P, As, Sb, Bi) compoundsShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ISSN 2050-7488, E-ISSN 2050-7496, Vol. 12, no 30, p. 19567-19579Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In this work, we employ density functional theory (DFT) calculations to systematically investigate the thermal and electronic transport properties as well as the thermoelectric performance of antiperovskite (APV) compounds within the Ca3XN family, where X = P, As, Sb, and Bi. Here, post calculations are performed based on self-consistent phonon (SCP) theory and the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), specifically accounting for four-phonon scattering processes. Interestingly, these materials display notably low lattice thermal conductivity (kappa(L)), approximately 1.1 W m(-1) K-1 at 900 K. As a result, both Ca3AsN and Ca3SbN exhibit remarkably high figure of merit (ZT) values at elevated temperatures (300-900 K), exceeding 1.1. Moreover, the selected APV materials, especially Ca3AsN, Ca3SbN, and Ca3BiN, maintain promising thermoelectric properties also in the medium-temperature range (approximate to 600 K), with ZT values of approximately 0.8, along with unconventional temperature-dependent thermal conductivities. Our work serves as a proof-of-concept example for designing materials for future medium-/high-temperature thermoelectric applications.
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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY , 2024. Vol. 12, no 30, p. 19567-19579
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Other Materials Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-206638DOI: 10.1039/d4ta02118eISI: 001272211900001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-206638DiVA, id: diva2:1891250
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Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council [2022-06725, 2018-05973]; Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC) in Austria; National Natural Science Foundation of China [52072188]; Program for Science and Technology Innovation Team in Zhejiang [2021R01004]; NHR-Verein e.V within the NHR Graduate School of National High Performance Computing (NHR); NHR Center NHR4CES at RWTH Aachen University []; Federal Ministry of Education and Research; TU Wien Bibliothek
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