Issue 1, 2022

Molybdenum as a versatile dopant in SnTe: a promising material for thermoelectric application

Abstract

The key to enhancing the thermoelectric performance of SnTe is to engineer its electronic structure by doping. It is essential that the beneficial features are exhibited at the Fermi level so as to exploit the benefits without the use of a co-dopant. We report molybdenum as such a versatile dopant in SnTe. The first-principles calculations reveal that Mo is able to introduce resonance levels as well as increase the band gap in SnTe. It not only causes the convergence of light and heavy hole valence sub-bands but also does so in the conduction band. The unique feature is the Rashba splitting of the conduction bands, leading to multiband transport. The transport properties calculated using Boltzmann transport equations predict the dual nature of the resonant dopant with a promising ZT of ∼1.84 and ∼1.1 as a p- and an n-type dopant, respectively, in SnTe at 800 K.

Graphical abstract: Molybdenum as a versatile dopant in SnTe: a promising material for thermoelectric application

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Sept. 2021
Accepted
21 Okt. 2021
First published
29 Okt. 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Energy Adv., 2022,1, 9-14

Molybdenum as a versatile dopant in SnTe: a promising material for thermoelectric application

U. S. Shenoy and D. K. Bhat, Energy Adv., 2022, 1, 9 DOI: 10.1039/D1YA00003A

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