Category: Transient Plane Source
Author(s): Alejandro PC)rez-RodrC-guez, Alejandro Perez-RodriB-guez, Alexey Shavel, Andreu Cabot, Andrew Fairbrother, Doris Cadavid, Joan Daniel Prades, Joan Ramon Morante, Jordi Arbiol, Maria Ibanez, Nuria GarcC-a-CastellC3, Nuria GarciB-a-Castello, Reza Zamani, Victor Izquierdo-Roca, Wenhua Li
Keywords: Copper, EDX, Electrical Resistivity, Energy Dispersive X-Ray, Energy Dispersive X-Ray (EDX), Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Seebeck coefficient, SEM, TEM, Thermal Conductivity, Thermoelectric Materials, TPS, transient plane source method, Transient Plane Source Method (TPS), Transmission electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-Vis, X-ray Diffraction, X-ray diffraction (XRD), XRD
Abstract: The authors present a method of producing Cu2CdSnSe4 quaternary nanocrystals using a colloidal synthesis route that could be used for future industrial synthesis. The nanocrystals prepared showed great potential for use as a thermoelectric material due to their high thermoelectric figure of merit (up to 0.71) resulting from a high electrical conductivity and low thermal conductivity. The authors believed that these properties could be further tuned in order to increase the figure of merit by adjusting the copper to cadmium ratio.
Reference: Chemistry of Materials, 24, 3 (2012) 562-570
DOI: 10.1021/cm2031812