Zeitschrift für elektrische und elektronische Systeme

Advanced Energy Materials 2019: Magnetic instability in heavily n-dopedFe-based full Heusler compounds: Origin and impact on thermoelectric properties - Fabio Ricci - University of Liege

Abstract

Fabio Ricci

Thermoelectricity is a promising road for collecting vitality yet huge scope applications are still hampered by the absence of exceptionally efficient minimal effort materials. As of late, Fe2Y Z Heusler com-pounds were anticipated hypothetically to be fascinating competitors with enormous thermoelectric power factor. Here, we show that under doping conditions viable with thermoelectric applications, these materials are inclined to a startling attractive unsteadiness impeding to their thermoelectric execution. We legitimize the material science at the source of this unsteadiness, give rules for avoiding it and examine its effect on the thermoelectric force factor. Doing as such, we likewise point out the weaknesses of the inflexible band estimate ordinarily utilized in high-throughput theoretical searches of new thermo electrics.