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Published Online: 01 June 2016
Accepted: May 2016

High-temperature thermoelectric properties of the β-As2−xBixTe3 solid solution

APL Materials 4, 104901 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4950947
J.-B. Vaney1, G. Delaizir2, A. Piarristeguy3, J. Monnier4, E. Alleno4, E. B. Lopes5, A. P. Gonçalves5, A. Pradel3, A. Dauscher1, C. Candolfi1, and B. Lenoir1, a)
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Abstract
Bi2Te3-based compounds are a well-known class of outstanding thermoelectric materials. β-As2Te3, another member of this family, exhibits promising thermoelectric properties around 400 K when appropriately doped. Herein, we investigate the high-temperature thermoelectric properties of the β-As2−xBixTe3 solid solution. Powder X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy experiments showed that a solid solution only exists up to x = 0.035. We found that substituting Bi for As has a beneficial influence on the thermopower, which, combined with extremely low thermal conductivity values, results in a maximum ZT value of 0.7 at 423 K for x = 0.017 perpendicular to the pressing direction.
The authors acknowledge the financial support from the French National Agency (ANR) in the frame of its program “PROGELEC” (Verre Thermo-Générateur “VTG”).

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