High-temperature thermoelectric properties of Cu1.97Ag0.03Se1+y

Tristan W. Day; Kasper A. Borup; Tiansong Zhang; Fivos Drymiotis; David R. Brown; Xun Shi; Lidong Chen; Bo B. Iversen; G. Jeffrey Snyder

doi:10.1007/s40243-014-0026-5

High-temperature thermoelectric properties of Cu_1.97Ag_0.03Se_1+y

Tristan W. Day, Kasper A. Borup, Tiansong Zhang, Fivos Drymiotis, David R. Brown, Xun Shi, Lidong Chen, Bo B. Iversen, G. Jeffrey Snyder^*

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Abstract

Copper selenide is of recent interest as a high-performance p-type thermoelectric material. Adding Ag to copper selenide increases the dimensionless figure-of-merit zT up to 780 K, with Cu_1.97Ag_0.03Se reaching a zT of 1.0 at 870 K. The increase compared with Cu₂Se can be explained by analyzing the Hall carrier concentration and effective mass. Addition of Ag reduces the carrier concentration to a nearly optimum value at high temperature. If the Hall carrier concentration were to be further reduced to 6.6 × 10²⁰ cm^-3 at 750 K, the average zT would be substantially improved for waste heat recovery applications.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	26
Journal	Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40243-014-0026-5
State	Published - Jun 1 2014

Keywords

Carrier concentration optimization
Copper selenide
CuAgSe
Thermoelectrics

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Materials Chemistry

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