Abstract
ABSTRACTTernary variations of the II-VI zincblende semiconductors have received little attention for thermoelectric applications. Here we present the first systematic doping study on Cu3SbSe4, a zincblende-like ternary semiconductor with a unit cell four times larger than the parent II-VI compounds. The large unit cell of Cu3SbSe4results in a low room temperature thermal conductivity (~3.0 W/m*K) and its large hole effective mass produces a Seebeck coefficient approaching 500 μV/K in the undoped compound. Our results show that Ge is an effective p-type dopant in Cu3SbSe4, and the power factor reaches nearly 16 μW/cm*K2at 630K when 3% Ge is added, rivaling that of state-of-the-art thermoelectric materials at this temperature.
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