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Influence of tungsten substitution and oxygen deficiency on the thermoelectric properties of CaMnO3−δ

Polycrystalline tungsten-substituted CaMn1−xWxO3−δ (0.00 ≤ x ≤ 0.05) powders were synthesized from a polymeric precursor, pressed and sintered to high density. The impact of tungsten substitution on the crystal structure, thermal stability, phase transition, electronic and thermal transport properties is assessed. Tungsten acts as an electron donator and strongly affects high-temperature oxygen stoichiometry. Oxygen vacancies form in the high figure-of-merit (ZT)-region starting from about T = 1000 K and dominate the carrier concentration and electronic transport far more than the tungsten substitution. The analysis of the transport properties yields that in the investigated regime the band filling is sufficiently high to overcome barriers of polaron transport. Therefore, the Cutler-Mott approach describes the electrical transport more accurately than the Mott approach for small polaron transport. The lattice thermal conductivity near room temperature is strongly suppressed with increasing tungsten concen...

Thermoelectric study of crossroads material MnTe via sulfur doping

Here, we report thermoelectric study of crossroads material MnTe via iso-electronic doping S on the Te-site. MnTe1-xSx samples with nominal S content of x = 0.00, 0.05, and 0.10 were prepared using a melt-quench method followed by pulverization and spark plasma sintering. The X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and ZAF-corrected compositional analysis confirmed that S uniformly substitutes Te up to slightly over 2%. A higher content of S in the starting materials led to the formation of secondary phases. The thermoelectric properties of MnTe1-xSx samples were characterized by means of Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity measurements from 300 K to 773 K. Furthermore, Hall coefficient measurements and a single parabolic band model were used to help gain insights on the effects of S-doping on the scattering mechanism and the carrier effective mass. As expected, S doping not only introduced hole charge carriers but also created short-range defects that ef...

Structure and thermoelectric properties of EuTi(O,N)3 ± δ

After partial substitution of nitrogen for oxygen in EuTiO3, the crystal structure, thermoelectric properties, morphology, and electronic structure of the products were analyzed and compared with pristine EuTiO3. The space group of EuTi(O,N)3 ± δ was orthorhombic Pnma due to the tilt and rotation of the anion octahedra, compared to cubic Pm3¯m of EuTiO3 (at room temperature). The thermoelectric properties of oxynitride polycrystalline bodies sintered in three different ways were investigated in the temperature range of 300 K < T < 950 K. The Seebeck coefficients (S) of the oxynitrides were lower compared with the oxide, and the electrical resistivities (ρ) were increased about one order of magnitude. The activation energies (EA) indicated a larger band gap of EuTi(O,N)3 ± δ when compared to the pristine EuTiO3 (∼1.3 eV compared to 0.98 eV). A morphological characterization by transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy illustrated intrinsic nanopores within the individual particles a...