High efficiency Bi2Te3-based materials and devices for thermoelectric power generation between 100 and 300 °C

Feng Hao; Pengfei Qiu; Yunshan Tang; Shengqiang Bai; Tong Xing; Hsu-Shen Chu; Qihao Zhang; Ping Lu; Tiansong Zhang; Dudi Ren; Jikun Chen; Xun Shi; Lidong Chen

doi:10.1039/C6EE02017H

High efficiency Bi₂Te₃-based materials and devices for thermoelectric power generation between 100 and 300 °C†

Feng Hao,^ab Pengfei Qiu,^a Yunshan Tang,^a Shengqiang Bai,*^a Tong Xing,^ab Hsu-Shen Chu,^c Qihao Zhang,^ab Ping Lu,^a Tiansong Zhang,^a Dudi Ren,^a Jikun Chen,^d Xun Shi*^a and Lidong Chen*^ae

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^a State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
E-mail: bsq@mail.sic.ac.cn, xshi@mail.sic.ac.cn, cld@mail.sic.ac.cn

^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China

^c Material and Chemical Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu 31040, Taiwan

^d School of Material Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

^e Shanghai Institute of Materials Genome, Shanghai 200444, China

Abstract

By suppressing intrinsic excitation in p-type Bi₂Te₃-based materials, we report maximum and average zT values of up to 1.4 and 1.2 between 100 and 300 °C, respectively. Thermoelectric modules based on these high performance materials show energy conversion efficiencies of up to 6.0% under a temperature gradient of 217 K, and are greatly superior to current Bi₂Te₃-based modules.

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High efficiency Bi₂Te₃-based materials and devices for thermoelectric power generation between 100 and 300 °C†

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