Thermopower Enhancement from Engineering the Na0.7CoO2 Interacting Fermiology via Fe Doping
The sodium cobaltate system NaxCoO2 is a prominent representant of strongly correlated materials with promising thermoelectric response. In a combined theoretical and experimental study we show that, by doping the Co site of the compound at x=0.7 with iron, a further increase of the Seebeck coeffici...
Main Authors: | , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2018-01-01
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Series: | Advances in Condensed Matter Physics |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9725321 |
Summary: | The sodium cobaltate system NaxCoO2 is a prominent representant of strongly correlated materials with promising thermoelectric response. In a combined theoretical and experimental study we show that, by doping the Co site of the compound at x=0.7 with iron, a further increase of the Seebeck coefficient is achieved. The Fe defects give rise to effective hole doping in the high-thermopower region of larger sodium content x. Originally filled hole pockets in the angular-resolved spectral function of the material shift to low energy when introducing Fe, leading to a multisheet interacting Fermi surface. Because of the higher sensitivity of correlated materials to doping, introducing adequate substitutional defects is thus a promising route to manipulate their thermopower. |
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ISSN: | 1687-8108 1687-8124 |