Physica B: Condensed Matter ( IF 2.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-08 , DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2020.412715 Neelesh Gupta , Rekha Verma
In this paper, we investigate the thermoelectric transport coefficients namely the Seebeck coefficient, the electrical conductivity, the electronic thermal conductivity and the lattice thermal conductivity using first-principles calculations in density functional theory. We also estimate the figure-of-merit for both intrinsic as well as extrinsic low-buckled monolayer silicene. Using Electron-Phonon Wannier function, we calculate the average scattering time in the reduced Brillouin zone as a function of temperature. The scattering time of electrons in the conduction band is found to be slightly higher than that of holes in the valence band. Also, the out-of-plane acoustic phonon modes scatter more strongly than the in-pane acoustic modes and hence contributes less in lattice thermal conductivity. We observe that the lattice thermal conductivity of monolayer intrinsic silicene comes out of the order of 9.2 W and the figure-of-merit in n-type material is almost twice to that of the p-type at around 1200 K. We compare the results obtained with HSE06 hybrid functional and PBE functional and find that there is a significant improvement in the values of those transport coefficients calculated using HSE06.
中文翻译:
低屈曲单层硅的热电输运性质的第一性原理研究
在本文中,我们使用密度泛函理论中的第一性原理研究了热电传输系数,即塞贝克系数,电导率,电子热导率和晶格热导率。我们还估计了本征和非本征低屈曲单层硅的品质因数。使用电子-Phonon Wannier函数,我们计算了在减小的布里渊区中的平均散射时间与温度的关系。发现导带中电子的散射时间比价带中空穴的散射时间略高。而且,面外声子模式比面内声模式更强烈地散射,因此对晶格热导率的贡献较小。 在1200 K左右时,n型材料的品质因数几乎是p型的两倍。我们比较了HSE06杂化功能和PBE功能的结果,发现该值有显着提高使用HSE06计算的那些传输系数。