English

Colossal Seebeck coefficient of thermoelectric material calculated by space charge effect, and phonon drag background

Materials Science 2025-05-02 v4

Abstract

Recently colossal Seebeck coefficient (SS) has found in the several thermoelectric (TE) materials. We present colossal SS and large thermal electron motivate force (EMF) reproduced by space charge (SC) model, introducing multi-Debye lengths within grain boundaries (GBs) of TE materials with phonon drag (PD) effect accompanying with electron by electron-phonon interaction. In addition to SS, the polarity reversal was also reproduced by transfer process with inner bias around SP generated from thermal EMF. Colossal SS and EMF for TE material were reproduced by inner SC model as a functions of averaged multi-Debye length within GBs.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2404.01311,
  title  = {Colossal Seebeck coefficient of thermoelectric material calculated by space charge effect, and phonon drag background},
  author = {Hirofumi Kakemoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01311},
  year   = {2025}
}