Abstract
Mn4Si7 has been substituted with the following elements: Cu, Fe, Re and Cr on the Mn site, and Al, B, Ge, Sn, Ga, In, Na and Tl on the Si site. The Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity and power factor of the substitutional alloys have been evaluated by using density functional theory calculations, and the temperature dependence of the electronic transport properties has been investigated at different charge carrier concentrations by solving the semi-classical Boltzmann transport equation. We show that the substitution of Cu for Mn worsens the thermoelectric properties, while that with Fe appears the␣most efficient for increasing the power factor. For In and Tl substitutions, the Seebeck coefficient is increased due to the high d-states contribution in the density of states at the Fermi level. Although the power factor is limited by a poor electrical conductivity, Mn32Si55Tl could exhibit a good figure of merit provided that the amount of Tl atoms is low (at most 1 at.%) and the charge carrier concentration is not too high (around 1020 cm−3).
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