Full thermoelectric characterization of stoichiometric electrodeposited thin film tin selenide (SnSe)
Full thermoelectric characterization of stoichiometric electrodeposited thin film tin selenide (SnSe)
Tin selenide (SnSe) has attracted much attention in the thermoelectric community since the discovery of the record figure of merit (ZT) of 2.6 in single crystal tin selenide in 2014. There have been many reports since of the thermoelectric characterization of SnSe synthesized or manufactured by several methods, but so far none of these have concerned the electrodeposition of SnSe. In this work, stoichiometric SnSe was successfully electrodeposited at −0.50 V vs SCE as shown by EDX, XPS, UPS, and XRD. The full ZT of the electrodeposits were then measured. This was done by both a delamination technique to measure the Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity which showed a peak power factor of 4.2 and 5.8 μW m–1 K–2 for the as deposited and heat-treated films, respectively. A novel modified transient 3ω method was used to measure the thermal conductivity of the deposited films on the deposition substrate. This revealed the thermal conductivity to be similar to the ultralow thermal conductivity of single crystal SnSe, with a value of 0.34 W m–1 K–1 being observed at 313 K.
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Nandhakumar, Iris S.
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Nandhakumar, Iris S.
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Burton, Matthew Richard
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Liu, Tianjun
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McGettrick, James
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Fenwick, Oliver
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Nandhakumar, Iris S., Burton, Matthew Richard, Boyle, Connor, Liu, Tianjun, McGettrick, James, Fenwick, Oliver and Carnie, Matthew
(2020)
Full thermoelectric characterization of stoichiometric electrodeposited thin film tin selenide (SnSe).
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12 (25), .
(doi:10.1021/acsami.0c06026).
Abstract
Tin selenide (SnSe) has attracted much attention in the thermoelectric community since the discovery of the record figure of merit (ZT) of 2.6 in single crystal tin selenide in 2014. There have been many reports since of the thermoelectric characterization of SnSe synthesized or manufactured by several methods, but so far none of these have concerned the electrodeposition of SnSe. In this work, stoichiometric SnSe was successfully electrodeposited at −0.50 V vs SCE as shown by EDX, XPS, UPS, and XRD. The full ZT of the electrodeposits were then measured. This was done by both a delamination technique to measure the Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity which showed a peak power factor of 4.2 and 5.8 μW m–1 K–2 for the as deposited and heat-treated films, respectively. A novel modified transient 3ω method was used to measure the thermal conductivity of the deposited films on the deposition substrate. This revealed the thermal conductivity to be similar to the ultralow thermal conductivity of single crystal SnSe, with a value of 0.34 W m–1 K–1 being observed at 313 K.
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Full Thermoelectric Characterization of Stoichiometric
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 June 2020
Published date: 24 June 2020
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The authors thank EPSRC (EP/N020863/1) for funding. All authors acknowledge the SU AIM Facility (EPSRC EP/M028267/1) for microscopy and imaging. The authors also thank COATED2 (EPSRC EP/L015099/1) for purchasing the ULVAC ZEM-3. O.F. acknowledges funding from the Royal Society (UF140372) and T.L. from the Chinese Scholarship Council. All the data created during this research are openly available from the Swansea University data archive at https://10.5281/zenodo.3707779 .
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thermoelectrics electrodeposition tin selenide SnSe thin film thermal conductivity
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