Tuning the electric transport behavior of AgCrSe2 by intrinsic defects

• 作者: Yang Hua Wei Bai Sheng Wang Yunbo Wu Shengtao Cui Zhe Sun Chong Xiao
• 来源期刊: 中国科学：化学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（11）
• 所属期刊栏目: ARTICLES
• 页码范围: 1970-1975
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The two-dimensional (2D) structure often leads to unusual phenomena for the impact of confined mean free path of carrier scattering.As a quasi-2D layered material,AgCrSe2 has a liquid-like phonon behavior for its unstable Ag atoms at service temperature,leading to the promising candidate for thermoelectricity and fast ionic conductor.However,the inferior electronic performance constrains its application prospects as a functional semiconductor,which provides broad opportunity to tune its electric behaviors by defect chemistry.In this work,we revealed abundant electric transport behaviors of AgCrSe2 with different types of intrinsic defects.For example,the AgCrSe2 changes from Anderson insulator to metal when Se defects become prevailing and the magnetoresistance alters its sign depending on the relative ratio of Ag and Cr defects.Our results reported here can give salutary boosting on regulating the electric properties of ternary transition metal selenide by defect chemistry.