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 Fe-free material shift to low energy when introducing Fe, leading to a multi-sheet 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.
@article{arxiv.1601.04427,
title = {Thermopower enhancement from engineering the Na$_{0.7}$CoO$_2$ interacting fermiology via Fe doping},
author = {Raphael Richter and Denitsa Shopova and Wenjie Xie and Anke Weidenkaff and Frank Lechermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04427},
year = {2018}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures, revised version, additional data