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Thin Film Tin Selenide (SnSe) Thermoelectric Generators Exhibiting Ultralow Thermal Conductivity
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Tianjun Liu,
James McGettrick ,
Shahin Mehraban,
Jenny Baker ,
Adam Pockett,
Trystan Watson ,
Oliver Fenwick,
Matt Carnie
Advanced Materials, Volume: 30, Issue: 31
Swansea University Authors:
Matthew Burton , James McGettrick , Shahin Mehraban, Jenny Baker , Adam Pockett, Trystan Watson , Matt Carnie
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DOI (Published version): 10.1002/adma.201801357
Abstract
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 i...
| Published in: | Advanced Materials |
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| ISSN: | 0935-9648 |
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2018
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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. |
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| Keywords: |
thermoelectric, tin selenide, thin film |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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31 |