DFT investigation on the electronic and thermoelectric properties of ternary semiconductor AgBiS2 for energy conversion application
| Autor: | Hadj Baltach, Kada Bidai, M. Batouche, A. Djied, T. Seddik, Xiaotian Wang, A. Tabeti, Rabah Khenata |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Materials science
Condensed matter physics business.industry Band gap Doping General Physics and Astronomy 01 natural sciences 010305 fluids & plasmas Semiconductor Electrical resistivity and conductivity 0103 physical sciences Thermoelectric effect Figure of merit 010306 general physics Electronic band structure Ternary operation business |
| Zdroj: | Chinese Journal of Physics. 59:578-584 |
| ISSN: | 0577-9073 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cjph.2019.04.012 |
| Popis: | Via the FP-APW+lo method, we have performed a systematic theoretical study of the structural, electronic and thermoelectric properties of β-AgBiS2 compound. The estimated structural properties such as cell parameters a and c, c/a ratio and internal parameters are in reasonable agreement with the earlier measured one. From band structure calculations we have found that β-AgBiS2 is semiconductor with a band gap of 1.23 eV using the TB-mBJ approximation. In addition, the analysis of the total and partial DOS shows a considerable hybridization between Ag ‘d’ states and S ‘p’, Bi ‘s’ states indicating that both Ag-S and Bi-S have covalent character. The main thermoelectric properties such as electrical conductivity, thermo-power, electronic thermal conductivity, power factor and figure of merit are calculated and discussed. We observed that ZT increases when temperature is augmented and reached its maximum of 0.95 and 0.85 at 2 × 1019 cm−3 for p and n-type doping, respectively. Thus, β-AgBiS2 compound has interesting thermoelectric properties in both p and n-type doping. |
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