Phonon Engineering for Thermoelectric Enhancement of p-Type Bismuth Telluride by Hot Pressing Texture Method.

Phonon engineering is a core stratagem to improve the thermoelectric performance, and multi-scale defects are expected to scatter a broad range of phonons and compress the lattice thermal conductivity. Here, we demonstrate obviously enhanced thermoelectric properties in Bi0.48Sb1.52Te3 alloy by a hot pressing texture method along the axial direction of zone-melt ingot. It is found that a plastic deformation of grain refinement and rearrangement occurs during the textured pressing process. Although the obtained power factor is slightly decreased, a large amount of grain boundaries emerges in the textured samples and dense dislocations are observed around the boundaries and inside the grains. These additional phonon scattering centers can effectively scatter the low- and mid-frequency phonons, and the corresponding lattice thermal conductivity is significantly reduced to only 50% of that of zone-melt samples. Consequently, the maximum figure of merit (ZT) reaches 1.44 at 330K, and the average ZT (300-380 K) reaches 1.38. This study suggests that the simple hot pressing texture is a promising method to significantly optimize the cooling capacity of Bi0.48Sb1.52Te3-based thermoelectric refrigeration.

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