Seebeck-Voltage measurements of Cobalt-based oxide-composites containing rare-earth elements (RE= Nd, Y, Gd, Ce) were performed under high temperature gradients up to 700 K. Several dependences were measured, Seebeeck voltage as a function of time U_S(t)or temperature difference U_S(Delta_T), closed circuited electric current as a function of Seebeck voltage I_S(U_S), or time I_S(t). While Nd2O3+CoO and Y2O3+CoO show linear n-type US(t)-behavior as usual thermoelectrics, Gd2O3+CoO possesses a large hysteresis. At both, Gd2O3- and Ce2O3+CoO also large time dependence I(t) referred to as pyroelectric material with high capacity were detected. Both anomalies became smaller when Fe2O3 is added or appear in Nd2O3+CoO and Y2O3+CoO when Al2O3 is added and can be explained by electron sucking into interfacial space charge regions, a new materials science challenge.
Pyroelectric thermo-wave probing of BaZr0.2Ti0.8O3 ceramics
Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine（乌克兰国家科学院物理研究所）；Frantsevich Institute for Problems in Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine（乌克兰国家科学院弗兰采维奇材料科学问题研究所）；V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine（乌克兰国家科学院瓦·拉沙卡罗夫半导体物理研究所）；Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences（捷克科学院物理研究所）
Relaxor ferrolectrics are important in technological applications due to a strong electromechanical response, energy storage capacity, electrocaloric effect, and pyroelectric energy conversion properties. Current efforts to discover and design new materials in this class generally rely on substitutional doping of known ferroelectrics, as slight changes to local compositional order can significantly affect the Curie temperature, morphotropic phase boundary, and electromechanical responses. In this work, we demonstrate that moving to the strong limit of compositional complexity in an ABO3 perovs…
Spin-dependent charge transport in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) can be manipulated by a temperature gradient, which can be utilized for spintronic and spin caloritronic applications. Evaluation of the thermally induced phenomena requires knowledge of the temperature differences across the oxide tunnel barrier adjacent to the ferromagnetic (FM) leads. However, it is challenging to accurately measure thermal properties of an oxide tunnel barrier consisting of only a few atomic layers. In this work, we experimentally interrogate the temperature evolutions in Ru/oxide/FM/seed/MgO (oxide=MgO, M…
ZnO is a promising candidate as an environment friendly thermoelectric (TE) material. However, the poor TE figure of merit (zT) needs to be addressed to achieve significant TE efficiency for commercial applications. Here we demonstrate that selective enhancement in phonon scattering leads to increase in zT of RGO encapsulated Al-doped ZnO core shell nanohybrids, synthesized via a facile and scalable method. The incorporation of 1 at% Al with 1.5 wt% RGO into ZnO (AGZO) has been found to show significant enhancement in zT (=0.52 at 1100 K) which is an order of magnitude larger compared to that …
We perform a comparative study on thermoelectric performance of antiperovskite oxides $Ae_3Tt$O and nitrides $Ae_3Pn$N ($Ae=$ Ca, Sr, Ba; $Tt=$ Ge, Sn, Pb; $Pn=$ As, Sb, Bi) by means of first-principles calculation. As for the oxides with the cubic structure, Ca$_3$GeO with a sizable band gap exhibits high thermoelectric performance at high temperatures, while Ba$_3$PbO with Dirac cones without the gap is favorable at low temperatures. The latter high performance owes to high valley degeneracy including the multiple Dirac cones and the valleys near the $Γ$ and R points. For the nitrides with t…
We propose an inexpensive scalable approach for achieving extremely high values of Seebeck coefficient ($α$) by exploiting the natural superlattice structure in Aurivillius phase oxides. In particular, we report an $α\approx $ 319\,mV/K at 300\,K in a composite of Aurivillius phase compound SrBi$_4$Ti$_4$O$_{15}$ (as a matrix) and a perovskite phase material (e.g., La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ or, La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$CoO$_3$ as filler). Such a colossal value of $α$ can be attributed to contributions from the enhanced density of states due to the effective low dimensional character of Bi$_2$O$_2…
We predict high thermoelectric efficiency in the layered perovskite La$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$, based on calculations (mostly ab-initio) of the electronic structure, transport coefficients, and thermal conductivity in a wide temperature range. The figure of merit $ZT$ computed with a temperature-dependent relaxation time increases monotonically from just above 1 at room temperature to over 2.5 at 1200 K, at an optimal carrier density of around 10$^{20}$ cm$^{-3}$. The Seebeck thermopower coefficient is between 200 and 300 $μ$V/K at optimal doping, but can reach nearly 1 mV/K at low doping. Much of the …
High-performance thermoelectric oxides could offer a great energy solution for integrated and embedded applications in sensing and electronics industries. Oxides, however, often suffer from low Seebeck coefficient when compared with other classes of thermoelectric materials. In search of high-performance thermoelectric oxides, we present a comprehensive density functional investigation, based on GGA$+U$ formalism, surveying the 3d and 4d transition-metal-containing ferrites of the spinel structure. Consequently, we predict MnFe$_2$O$_4$ and RhFe$_2$O$_4$ have Seebeck coefficients of $\sim \pm …
本文报道了在由IrO $_2$膜和Y $_3$ Fe $_5$ O $_{12}$膜组成的全氧化物双层膜系统中观察到的纵向自旋塞贝克效应（LSSE）。通过导电IrO $_2$层中的逆自旋霍尔效应，检测由穿过IrO $_2$ /Y $_3$ Fe $_5$ O O $_{12}$界面的温度梯度产生的自旋电流作为电压。该电压与温度梯度的大小成比例，并且其磁场依赖性与LSSE的特性很好地一致。这一演示可能会导致实现低成本，稳定，透明的自旋电流驱动的热电器件。
The effect of Ta oxygen scavenger layer on HfO$_2$-based resistive switching behavior: thermodynamic stability, electronic structure, and low-bias transport
金属-氧化物-金属异质结构在高阻态和低阻态之间的可逆电阻切换使得它们在随机存取存储器中的应用非常有趣。虽然最近的实验工作已经表明，插入金属“氧清除剂层”之间的正极和氧化物改善器件的性能，清除剂层如何修改异质结构的性质的基本理解是缺乏的。我们用密度泛函理论计算了TiN/HfO $_2$ /TiN异质结构的热力学性质和电导。首先，我们表明，Ta插入降低低电阻态的形成能。其次，虽然Ta清除层通过改变氧化物-电极界面处的界面电荷来降低高电阻状态下的肖特基势垒高度，但异质结构保持高电阻状态与低电阻状态之间的高电阻比。最后，我们表明，在存在Ta层的情况下，器件导通状态的低偏置电导对从Hf O $_2$中去除的氧的空间分布变得不那么敏感。通过提供对所观察到的清除剂层改进的基本理解，我们开辟了一条利用氧清除剂层设计界面以控制和增强器件性能的途径。进而，这可以使得能够实现非易失性低功率存储器技术，同时减少消费电子产品的能量消耗并对社会产生显著的益处。
The layered cobaltite [Ca$_2$CoO$_3$]$_{0.62}$[CoO$_2$], often expressed as the approximate formula Ca$_3$Co$_4$O$_9$, is a promising candidate for efficient oxide thermoelectrics but an origin of its unusual thermoelectric transport is still in debate. Here we investigate \textit{in-plane} anisotropy of the transport properties in a broad temperature range to examine the detailed conduction mechanism. The in-plane anisotropy between $a$ and $b$ axes is clearly observed both in the resistivity and the thermopower, which is qualitatively understood with a simple band structure of the triangular…
Silicon carbide silicon carbide (SiC SiC) composites are often used in oxidizing environments at high temperatures. Measurements of the thermal conductance of the oxide layer provide a way to better understand the oxidation process with high spatial resolution. We use time domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) to map the thermal conductance of the oxide layer and the thermal conductivity of the SiC SiC composite with a spatial resolution of 3 μm. Heterodyne detection using a 50 kHz modulated probe beam and a 10 MHz modulated pump suppresses the coherent pick-up and enables faster data acquisition th…
Transition metal oxides are considered promising thermoelectric materials for harvesting high-temperature waste heat due to their stability, abundance and low toxicity. Despite their typically strong ionic character, they can exhibit surprisingly high power factors $σS^2$, as in n-type SrTiO$_3$ for instance. Thus, it is worth examining other transition metal oxides that might surpass the performances of SrTiO$_3$. This theoretical paper investigates the thermoelectric properties of n-type rutile TiO$_2$, which is the most stable phase of titanium oxide up to 2000 K. The electronic structure i…
Strongly confined NaVO$^+$ segregation and its thermo-responsive functionality at the interface between simple sputter-deposited amorphous vanadium oxide thin films and soda-lime glass was substantiated in the present study by in-situ temperature-controlled Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS). The obtained ToF-SIMS depth profiles provided unambiguous evidence for a reversible transformation that caused systematic switching of the NaVO$^+$/ Na$^+$ and Na$^+$/ VO$^+$ intensities upon cycling the temperature between 25 $^\circ$C and 340 $^\circ$C. Subsequently, NaVO complexe…
The electronic, thermal and optical properties of a monolayer BeO with Boron (B) and Nitrogen (N) co-dopant atoms are studied by means of a density functional theory computation. Our calculations reveal that BeO with BN-codopant atoms can give rise to more effective and outstanding performance for the thermal and optical responses. More significantly, the monolayer BeO with BN codopant atoms becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap in comparison with the insulator behavior of pristine BeO. The particular attention of this work is paid to the influence of the atomic configuration and the …
High-throughput synthesis of thermoelectric Ca$_3$Co$_4$O$_9$ films
复合氧化物薄膜的性质可以在作为失配、组成、取向和结构的函数的值的范围内调节。在这里，我们报告了一种策略，用于生长结构化的外延热电薄膜，从而提高塞贝克系数。代替使用单晶蓝宝石衬底来支持外延生长，使用脉冲激光沉积技术将Ca $_3$ Co $_3$ O $_9$膜沉积到通过火花等离子体烧结纹理化的Al $_2$ O $_3$多晶衬底上。的2000纳米薄膜的结构质量进行了研究，通过透射电子显微镜，而晶粒的晶体取向和外延的关系，由电子背散射衍射确定。多晶陶瓷模板的使用导致结构化的膜，是在良好的局部外延注册。塞贝克系数在300 K时约为170 $μ$ V/K，这是具有低载流子密度的失配材料的典型值。这种高通量的过程，称为组合衬底外延，似乎有利于合理调整功能氧化膜，开辟了一条路线，高品质的复合氧化物的外延合成。
The combination of multiple functionalities in a single material is an appealing strategy for the de-velopment of smart materials with unique features. In this work, we present the preparation of thermoresponsive magnetic nanoparticles and their one-dimensional assembly into transient micro-filaments. The material is based on 9.4 nm iron oxide nanoparticles grafted with poly(N-n-propylacrylamide) via multiphosphonic acid anchoring sites. The hybrid nanoparticles present a low critical solution temperature (LCST) transition between 21 °C and 28 °C, depending on the pH and the ionic strength. Wh…
The data of different authors on the thermal conductivity of wustite Fe1-xO, magnetite F3O4, hematite Fe2O3 and pure iron are systematized. The generalized values are described by piecewise smooth functions containing as varying parameters the temperatures of magnetiv and polymorphic (for iron) transformations as well as the thermodynamic stability boundary (for wustite). At polymorphic transformation a finite break of the thermal conductivity function is envisaged, at othet critical points only a break of its temperature derivative is acceptable. The proposed formulas are presented in two for…
We present a novel approach to reduce the thermal conductivity ($κ$) in thermoelectric composite materials using acoustic impedance mismatch and the Debye model. Also, the correlation between interface thermal resistance (R$_{int}$) and the particle size of the dispersed phase on the k of the composite is discussed. In particular, the $κ$ of an oxide composite which consists of a natural superlattice Aurivillius phase (SrBi$_4$Ti$_4$O$_{15}$) as a matrix and perovskite (La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$) as a dispersed phase is investigated. A significant reduction in the $κ$ of composite, even lowe…
