Abstract
Exploring thermoelectric materials with high performance and low cost is of great importance in mitigating environmental and energy challenges. Here, we provide an atomistic insight into strain-induced enhancement of thermoelectric performance in potassium-based halide double perovskite K2SnX6 (X = I, Br, Cl) using first-principles calculations. To get reliable predictions for transport properties, we adopt advanced methods such as self-energy relaxation time approximation for electron transport and unified theory for lattice transport in combination with self-consistent phonon approach. Our calculations highlight a promising thermoelectric figure of merit ZT over 1.01 in K2SnI6 when applying a compressive strain of −6%, being tenfold larger than those in the uncompressed compounds, suggesting that compressing is an effective way to enhance the thermoelectric performance of halide double perovskites.
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