In-situ growth of high-performance(Ag,Sn)co-doped CoSb3 thermoelectric thin films

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Owing to the unique features,such as mechanically robust,low-toxic,high stability,and high thermo-electric performance,CoSb3-based skutterudite materials are among art-of-the state thermoelectric can-didates.In this work,we develop a facile in-situ method for the growth of well-crystallinity(Ag,Sn)co-doped CoSb3 thin films.This preparation method can efficiently control the dopant concentration and distribution in the thin films.Both the density functional theory calculation and the experimental results suggest that Sn and Ag dopants trend to enter the lattice and preferentially fill interstitial sites.Addi-tionally,band structure calculation results suggest that the Fermi level moves into the conduction bands due to co-doping and eventually induces the increased electrical conductivity,which agrees with the optimization of carrier concentration.Moreover,an increase in the density of state after co-doping is re-sponsible for the increased Seebeck coefficient.As a result,the power factors of(Ag,Sn)co-doped CoSb3 thin films are greatly enhanced,and the maximum power factor achieves over 0.3 mW m-1 K-2 at 623 K,which is almost two times than that of the un-doped CoSb3 film.Multiple microstructures,including Sb vacancies and Ag/Sn interstitial atoms as point defects,and a high density of lattice distortions coupled with nano-sized Ag-rich grains,lead to all scale phonon scatterings.As a result,a reduced thermal con-ductivity of~0.28 W m-1 K-1 and a maximum ZT of~0.52 at 623 K are obtained from(Ag,Sn)co-doped CoSb3 thin films.This study indicates our facile in-situ growth can be used to develop high-performance dual doped CoSb3 thins.
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