Abstract
Recent investigations on thermoelectric research mainly focus on nano-structured low dimensional systems. It has been proven that the artificial structured nano-composites and superlattices have significant effect on lowering thermal conductivity. Peierls distortion is a pathway to enhance thermoelectric figure-of-merit ZT by employing natural nano-wire-like electronic and thermal transport. The phonon-softening, called Kohn anomaly, and Peierls lattice distortion decrease phonon energy and increase phonon scattering, respectively, result in lowering thermal conductivity. The quasi-one-dimensional electrical transport from anisotropic band structure ensures high Seebeck coefficient in Indium Selenide. In this chapter, we discuss the concept of Peierls transition and charge density wave in terms of mean field theory. As a toy model of charge density wave, we investigated the thermoelectric properties of \({\mathrm{CeTe }}_{2}\) and its doped compounds. The routes for high ZT materials development of \({\mathrm{In }}_{4}{\mathrm{Se }}_{3-\updelta }\) are discussed from quasi-one-dimensional property and electronic band structure calculation to materials synthesis, crystal growth, and their thermoelectric properties investigations. The thermoelectric properties of \({\mathrm{In }}_{4}{\mathrm{Se }}_{3-\updelta }\) need to be optimized indicating that further ZT can be achieved by electron doping. The chlorine doped \({\mathrm{In }}_{4}{\mathrm{Se }}_{3-\updelta }{\mathrm{Cl }}_{0.03}\) compound exhibits high ZT over a wide temperature range and shows state-of-the-art thermoelectric performance of \(ZT=1.53\) at \(450\,^{\circ }\)C as an n-type materials.
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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2011-0021335), Nano Material Technology Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2011-0030147), the Energy Efficiency and Resources program of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Knowledge Economy (No. 20112010100100), and TJ Park Junior Faculty Fellowship funded by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation.
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Rhyee, JS. (2013). The Peierls Distortion and Quasi-One-Dimensional Crystalline Materials of Indium Selenides. In: Koumoto, K., Mori, T. (eds) Thermoelectric Nanomaterials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37537-8_5
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