Thermoelectric Properties of an Individual Suspended Single-Crystalline Sb2Se3 Nanowire

DU Yanzheng; SHI Shaoyi; MIAO Tingting; MA Weigang; MAI Liqiang; ZHANG Xing

doi:10.1007/s11630-022-1610-0

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2022 , Vol. 31 >Issue 4: 1106 - 1114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-022-1610-0

Thermoelectric Properties of an Individual Suspended Single-Crystalline Sb₂Se₃ Nanowire

DU Yanzheng ,
SHI Shaoyi ,
MIAO Tingting ,
MA Weigang ,
MAI Liqiang ,
ZHANG Xing

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1. Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Process Fluid Filtration and Separation, College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
3. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

Online published: 2023-12-01

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFA0715000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 52127816 and 52176078).

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022

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Nanowires exhibit excellent thermoelectric performance, due to the stronger quantum confinement and phonon scattering effect compared to bulk materials. However, it is a challenge to accurately evaluate the thermoelectric performance of nanowires. In this paper, the thermoelectric properties of an individual suspended Sb₂Se₃ nanowire have been characterized by comprehensive T-type method, including thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient and figure of merit. The thermal conductivity increases from 0.57 W/(m∙K) to 3.69 W/(m∙K) with temperature increasing from 80 K to 320 K. The lattice vibration dominates the heat conduction process, and due to its flawless crystal structure, the thermal conductivity is not lower than the reported values of bulk Sb₂Se₃. The electrical conductivity increases from 7.83 S/m to 688 S/m in the temperature range of 50 K–320 K, which is a great improvement compared with the corresponding bulk value. At 294 K, the Seebeck coefficient of the Sb2Se3 nanowire is –1120 μV/K and the corresponding figure of merit is 0.064.

Key words： Sb₂Se₃ ; nanowire; thermoelectric properties; thermal conductivity; Seebeck coefficient; electrical conductivity

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DU Yanzheng , SHI Shaoyi , MIAO Tingting , MA Weigang , MAI Liqiang , ZHANG Xing . Thermoelectric Properties of an Individual Suspended Single-Crystalline Sb₂Se₃ Nanowire[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2022 , 31(4) : 1106 -1114 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-022-1610-0

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