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Hinge-like structure induced unusual properties of black phosphorus and new strategies to improve the thermoelectric performance
- Source :
- Scientific Reports 4, 6946 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- We systematically investigated the geometric, electronic and thermoelectric (TE) properties of bulk black phosphorus (BP) under strain. The hinge-like structure of BP brings unusual mechanical responses such as anisotropic Young's modulus and negative Poisson's ratio. A sensitive electronic structure of BP makes it transform among metal, direct and indirect semiconductors under strain. The maximal figure of merit $ZT$ of BP is found to be 0.72 at $800\,\mathrm{K}$ that could be enhanced to 0.87 by exerting an appropriate strain, revealing BP could be a potential medium-high temperature TE material. Such strain-induced enhancements of TE performance are often observed to occur at the boundary of the direct-indirect band gap transition, which can be attributed to the increase of degeneracy of energy valleys at the transition point. By comparing the structure of BP with SnSe, a family of potential TE materials with hinge-like structure are suggested. This study not only exposes various novel properties of BP under strain, but also proposes effective strategies to seek for better TE materials.<br />Comment: 6 figures. Supplemental Information is available in Scientific Reports and also involved in this source package
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Physics - Computational Physics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports 4, 6946 (2014)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1406.0261
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06946