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Investigation of Thermoelectric Properties of Ag2SxSe1−x (x = 0.0, 0.2 and 0.4)

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Materials best-suited for direct application exhibit a high thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) close to unity, from room temperature to ∼ 400 K. In this work, we investigated the thermoelectric behavior of Ag2Se, and a sulfur substituted Ag2Se system, i.e. Ag2S0.2Se0.8 and Ag2S0.4Se0.6 , in the temperature range of 300 K to 500 K. With strong anharmonic lattice vibration and semiconducting electronic structure, these materials showed thermal conductivity less than 1 W m−1 K−1, electrical resistivity ∼ 1 mΩ cm, together with moderate Seebeck coefficient values of ∼ − 140 μV K−1 in the low-temperature phase. We were able to achieve ZT equal to unity in a wide temperature range of 350–400 K, with a maximum value of ZT = 1.08 at 350 K for the Ag2S0.4Se0.6 material.

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We would like to acknowledge to the JST-CREST and the JSPS Kakenhi Grant No. 18H01695 for the financial support.

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  1. Research Center for Smart Energy Technology, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, 468-8511, Japan

    Saurabh Singh, Keisuke Hirata, Dogyun Byeon, Takuya Matsunaga, Omprakash Muthusamy, Swapnil Ghodke, Masaharu Matsunami & Tsunehiro Takeuchi

  2. Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., Hyogo, 664-0016, Japan

    Masahiro Adachi & Yoshiyuki Yamamoto

  3. CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, 102-0076, Japan

    Saurabh Singh & Tsunehiro Takeuchi

  4. Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

    Tsunehiro Takeuchi

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Singh, S., Hirata, K., Byeon, D. et al. Investigation of Thermoelectric Properties of Ag2SxSe1−x (x = 0.0, 0.2 and 0.4). J. Electron. Mater. 49, 2846–2854 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-019-07879-z

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