TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermoelectric properties of the misfit cobaltate Ca3Co4O9
AU - Amin, Bin
AU - Eckern, Ulrich
AU - Schwingenschlögl, Udo
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We acknowledge helpful discussions with H. Karl and A. Weidenkaff, as well as with M. E. Gruner, R. Pentcheva, and K. I. Wysokiński. This work was financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through TRR 80. The research reported in this publication was supported by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
PY - 2017/6/9
Y1 - 2017/6/9
N2 - The layered misfit cobaltate CaCoO, also known as CaCoO[CoO], is a promising p-type thermoelectric oxide. Employing density functional theory, we study its electronic structure and determine, on the basis of Boltzmann theory within the constant-relaxation-time approximation, the thermoelectric transport coefficients. The dependence on strain and temperature is determined. In particular, we find that the XX-component of the thermopower is strongly enhanced, while the yy-component is strongly reduced, when applying 2% tensile strain. A similar anisotropy is also found in the power factor. The temperature dependence of the conductivity in the a-b plane is found to be rather weak above 200 K, which clearly indicates that the experimentally observed transport properties are dominated by inhomogeneities arising during sample growth, i.e., they are not intrinsic.
AB - The layered misfit cobaltate CaCoO, also known as CaCoO[CoO], is a promising p-type thermoelectric oxide. Employing density functional theory, we study its electronic structure and determine, on the basis of Boltzmann theory within the constant-relaxation-time approximation, the thermoelectric transport coefficients. The dependence on strain and temperature is determined. In particular, we find that the XX-component of the thermopower is strongly enhanced, while the yy-component is strongly reduced, when applying 2% tensile strain. A similar anisotropy is also found in the power factor. The temperature dependence of the conductivity in the a-b plane is found to be rather weak above 200 K, which clearly indicates that the experimentally observed transport properties are dominated by inhomogeneities arising during sample growth, i.e., they are not intrinsic.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625191
UR - http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4984960
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020736808&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1063/1.4984960
DO - 10.1063/1.4984960
M3 - Article
SN - 0003-6951
VL - 110
SP - 233505
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
IS - 23
ER -