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arXiv 2101.08124cond-mat.mtrl-sciphysics.comp-ph
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软模相变附近n型PbTe晶格膨胀驱动的电声耦合和热电性质

Electron-phonon coupling and electronic thermoelectric properties of n-type PbTe driven near the soft-mode phase transition via lattice expansion

Jiang Cao, Đorđe Dangić, José D. Querales-Flores, Stephen Fahy, Ivana Savić

摘要:

IV-VI材料是一些最有效的块状热电材料,这是由于它们接近软模式相变,这导致低的晶格热导率。已经表明,PbTe的晶格热导率可以通过例如经由晶格膨胀使PbTe更接近相变而显著降低。然而,软声子模对这种系统的电子热电性能的影响仍然是未知的。使用第一性原理计算,我们表明,软区中心横向光学声子不恶化的电子热电性能的PbTe驱动接近相变通过晶格膨胀由于外部应力,从而提高热电优值。我们发现,光学形变势的变化很弱,接近相变的增加,但增加的人口和散射相空间的软声子模式。然而,带边附近的电子态和软光学声子之间的散射仍然相对较弱,即使非常接近相变。

英文摘要:

IV-VI materials are some of the most efficient bulk thermoelectric materials due to their proximity to soft-mode phase transitions, which leads to low lattice thermal conductivity. It has been shown that the lattice thermal conductivity of PbTe can be considerably reduced by bringing PbTe closer to the phase transition e.g. via lattice expansion. However, the effect of soft phonon modes on the electronic thermoelectric properties of such system remains unknown. Using first principles calculations, we show that the soft zone center transverse optical phonons do not deteriorate the electronic thermoelectric properties of PbTe driven closer to the phase transition via lattice expansion due to external stress, and thus enhance the thermoelectric figure of merit. We find that the optical deformation potentials change very weakly as the proximity to the phase transition increases, but the population and scattering phase space of soft phonon modes increase. Nevertheless, scattering between electronic states near the band edge and soft optical phonons remains relatively weak even very near the phase transition.

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