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Tuning transport properties of nickel-doped zinc oxide for thermoelectric applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2018

Andrei Baranovskiy ,
Ido Koresh  and
Yaron Amouyal
Andrei Baranovskiy
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Ido Koresh
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Yaron Amouyal*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
*
Address all correspondence to Yaron Amouyal at amouyal@technion.ac.il
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Abstract

ZnO-based oxides are promising for thermoelectric energy generation at elevated temperatures. We study electrical transport properties of Ni-doped ZnO applying the density functional theory, indicating increase of the electrical conductivity (σ) and decrease of the Seebeck coefficient (S) due to Ni-doping, in full accordance with experimental results. We calculate the temperature-dependent σ and S applying the Boltzmann transport theory, approximating the electron relaxation time, τe. Good agreement with experimental data is obtained considering both temperature and energy dependence of τe. This yields explicit expressions for τe and provides us with powerful predictive tool assessing electronic transport in ZnO.

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MRS Communications , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 2018 , pp. 858 - 864
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