Ultralow thermal conductivity and high-temperature thermoelectric performance in n-type K₂.₅Bi₈.₅Se₁₄

• Main Authors: Luo, Zhong-Zhen, Cai, Songting, Hao, Shiqiang, Bailey, Trevor P., Hu, Xiaobing, Hanus, Riley, Ma, Runchu, Tan, Gangjian, Chica. Daniel G., Snyder, G. Jeffrey, Uher, Ctirad, Wolverton, Christopher, Dravid, Vinayak P., Yan, Qingyu, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials::Functional materials; Phonons; Thermal Conductivity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159049
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We studied the narrow bandgap (0.55 eV) semiconductor K2.5Bi8.5Se14, as a potential thermoelectric material for power generation. Samples of polycrystalline K2.5Bi8.5Se14 prepared by spark plasma sintering exhibit exceptionally low lattice thermal conductivities (κlat) of 0.57 − 0.33 Wm−1K−1 in the...