Bipolar Thermoelectrical Transport of SnSe Nanoplate in Low Temperature

• 来源期刊: 中国物理快报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 69-73
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/37/1/017301

摘要

Bulk SnSe is an excellent thermoelectrical material with the highest figure-of-merit value of ZT =2.8,making it promising in applications.Temperature-dependent electrical and thermoelectrical properties of SnSe nanoplates are studied at low temperature.Conductivity drops and rises again as temperature is lowered.The Seebeck coefficient is positive at room temperature and becomes negative at low temperature.The change of the sign of the Seebeck coefficient indicates influence of bipolar transport of the semiconductive SnSe nanoplate.The bipolar transport is caused by the Fermi energy changing with temperature due to different contributions from donors and acceptors at different temperatures.