Texturation boosts the thermoelectric performance of BiCuSeO oxyselenides

  • Jiehe Sui
  • , Jing Li
  • , Jiaqing He
  • , Yan Ling Pei
  • , David Berardan
  • , Haijun Wu
  • , Nita Dragoe
  • , Wei Cai
  • , Li Dong Zhao

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Abstract

We present a high ZT ∼ 1.4 in textured Bi0.875Ba 0.125CuSeO obtained by a hot-forging process. The carrier mobility along the direction perpendicular to the pressing direction was significantly increased, resulting in increase in the electrical conductivity and maximization of the power factor at 923 K from 6.3 μW cm-1 K-2 for the sample before hot-forging to 8.1 μW cm-1 K-2 after the hot-forging process. Therefore, the maximum ZT was significantly increased from ∼1.1 to 1.4 through texturing for Bi0.875Ba 0.125CuSeO, which is the highest ZT ever reported among oxygen containing materials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2916-2920
Number of pages5
JournalEnergy and Environmental Science
Volume6
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2013

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