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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 8(86)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.86.085314

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Feasibility of enhancing the thermoelectric power factor in GaNxAs1-x

Journal article published in 2012 by P. Pichanusakorn, Y. J. Kuang ORCID, C. Patel, C. W. Tu, P. R. Bandaru
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

This study was motivated by the possibility of using N resonant levels interacting with the GaAs conduction band, in GaNxAs1−x (0<x<2.5%), to enhance the density of states effective mass (md) and consequently the thermoelectric power factor (S2σ)—where S is the Seebeck coefficient and σ is the electrical conductivity. However, it was observed that, compared with GaAs, the power factor was reduced in spite of a small increase in the md. The influences of carrier passivation and dopant type, as well as the changes in the carrier scattering mechanism, which degrades the carrier mobility, are discussed.