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American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry, 4(56), p. 2248-2257, 2017

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02930

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Effect of Isovalent Substitution on the Electronic Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of the Solid Solution α-As2Te3–xSex(0 ≤x≤ 1.5)

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Abstract

We report on the influence of Se substitution on the electronic band structure and thermoelectric properties (5−523 K) of the solid solution α-As2Te3−xSex (0 ≤ x ≤ 1.5). All of the polycrystalline compounds α-As2Te3−xSex crystallize isostructurally in the monoclinic space group C2/m (No. 12, Z = 4). Regardless of the Se content, chemical analyses performed by scanning electron microscopy and electron probe microanalysis indicate a good chemical homogeneity, with only minute amounts of secondary phases for some compositions. In agreement with electronic band structurecalculations, neutron powder diffraction suggests that Se does not randomly substitute for Te but exhibits a site preference. These theoretical calculations further predict a monotonic increase in the band gap energy with the Se content, which is confirmed experimentally by absorption spectroscopy measurements. Increasing x up to x = 1.5 leaves unchanged both the p-type character and semiconducting nature of α-As2Te3. Theelectrical resistivity and thermopower gradually increase with x as a result of the progressive increase in the band gap energy. Despite the fact that α-As2Te3 exhibits very low lattice thermal conductivity κL, the substitution of Se for Te further lowers κL to 0.35 W m−1 K−1 at 300 K. The compositional dependence of the lattice thermal conductivity closely follows classical models of phonon alloy scattering, indicating that this decrease is due to enhanced pointdefect scattering.