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Volume 117, Number 4, February 2017
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| Article Number | 47002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/117/47002 | |
| Published online | 06 April 2017 | |
TiPdSn: A half Heusler compound with high thermoelectric performance
Department of physics, Panjab University - Chandigarh-140016, India
(a) kulwinderphysics@gmail.com
Received: 6 February 2017
Accepted: 23 March 2017
The electronic, structural and thermoelectric properties of TiPdSn half Heusler material have been studied using density functional theory and semi classical Boltzmann transport theory. It has been found that TiPdSn is an indirect band gap semiconductor with band gap 0.48 eV. TiPdSn exhibits large power factor for p-type composition which is equal to 14.88 × 1011 W/msK2 at 700 K. The lattice thermal conductivity and relaxation time decrease with an increase in temperature. To analyze the stability of this compound, phonon properties like phonon dispersion, phonon density of states and heat capacity have been calculated. The maximum value of ZT, which is equal to 0.74, is attained at 500 K.
PACS: 71.15.Mb – Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections / 71.15.Ap – Basis sets (LCAO, plane-wave, APW, etc.) and related methodology (scattering methods, ASA, linearized methods, etc.)
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