Thin Film Tin Selenide (SnSe) Thermoelectric Generators Exhibiting Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

© 2018 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 30(2018), 31 vom: 10. Aug., Seite e1801357
1. Verfasser: Burton, Matthew R (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Liu, Tianjun, McGettrick, James, Mehraban, Shahin, Baker, Jenny, Pockett, Adam, Watson, Trystan, Fenwick, Oliver, Carnie, Matthew J
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article nanosheets thermal conductivity thermoelectrics thin films tin selenide
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Zusammenfassung:© 2018 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Tin selenide (SnSe) has attracted much attention in the field of thermoelectrics since the discovery of the record figure of merit (ZT) of 2.6 ± 0.3 along the b-axis of the material. The record ZT is attributed to an ultralow thermal conductivity that arises from anharmonicity in bonding. While it is known that nanostructuring offers the prospect of enhanced thermoelectric performance, there have been minimal studies in the literature to date of the thermoelectric performance of thin films of SnSe. In this work, preferentially orientated porous networks of thin film SnSe nanosheets are fabricated using a simple thermal evaporation method, which exhibits an unprecedentedly low thermal conductivity of 0.08 W m-1 K-1 between 375 and 450 K. In addition, the first known example of a working SnSe thermoelectric generator is presented and characterized
Beschreibung:Date Completed 21.08.2018
Date Revised 30.09.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201801357