Summarizing Recent

Work on TE Materials
Ran He
Outline

• Half-Heusler NbFeSb: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: p-type

• Full-Heusler VFe2Al: n-type

• Full-Heusler TiFeCoGa: n-type

• Other systems
Outline

• Half-Heusler NbFeSb: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: p-type

• Full-Heusler VFe2Al: n-type

• Full-Heusler TiFeCoGa: n-type

• Other systems
N-type doping elements

• Nb(Cr)FeSb----Fail

• NbFeSb(Te)----Fail, but sample become insulator

with even 1% Te (might be interesting for future
study).

• NbFe(Co)Sb----Showing n-type
NbFe1-yCoySb
4
20

S2 (10-4 W m-1 K-2)

150
(105 Ohm-1 m-1)

S (10-6 V K-1)
15
0
2 10
-150
1 5

-300
0
0
200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000
T (K) T (K) T (K)

16 0.30

0.25 No doping
14
y=0.02
tot (Wm-1K-1)

0.20
12 y=0.04
ZT

0.15

10 0.10
y=0.06
0.05
y=0.08
8
y=0.1
0.00
6
200 400 600 800 1000 200 400 600 800 1000
T (K) T (K)
Outline

• Half-Heusler NbFeSb: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: p-type

• Full-Heusler VFe2Al: n-type

• Full-Heusler TiFeCoGa: n-type

• Other systems
NbCoSn1-xSbx—Characterization
Arc Melting: 10 grams in total
Ball Milling: 2 hours
Hot Pressing: 1000 C, 80 MPa, 2 min
NbCoSn1-xSbx—TE properties

R. He, et al, submitted

Outline

• Half-Heusler NbFeSb: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: p-type

• Full-Heusler VFe2Al: n-type

• Full-Heusler TiFeCoGa: n-type

• Other systems
P-type Doping elements

• NbCo(Fe)Sn----Fail

• NbCoSn(B, Al, In, Si)----Fail

• Nb(Ti, Zr, Y, La, Yb, Eu, Ca, Mg, Li)CoSn----Fail

• Modulation doing: NbCoSn(TiCoSn, TiFeSb)----

Fail
Outline

• Half-Heusler NbFeSb: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: p-type

• Full-Heusler VFe2Al: n-type

• Full-Heusler TiFeCoGa: n-type

• Other systems
VFe2Al----Good TE materials
below 300 K

Journal of Electronic Materials June 2012, Volume 41, Issue 6, pp 1348-1353

TiFeCoGa----A narrow gap
semiconductor

L. Xiong, et al. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 360

(2014) 98–103

7000
6000 220
5000
4000
Counts

3000 400 422

TiFeCoGa
2000
1000
0
0 20 40 60 80 100
2-Theta
 TE properties
4.5E+05 0.0E+00
4.0E+05

Seebeck Coefficient (V/K)

-2.0E-05
3.5E+05
-4.0E-05
3.0E+05
-6.0E-05
EC (S/m)

2.5E+05 TiFeCoGa
2.0E+05 Fe2VAl0.98Si0.02 -8.0E-05
1.5E+05 Fe2VAl0.96Si0.04 -1.0E-04
1.0E+05 TiFeCoGa0.98Si0.02 -1.2E-04
5.0E+04
0.0E+00 -1.4E-04
0 200 400 600 800 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
T (C) T (C)

3.0E-03 14

Thermal Cond. (W m-1 K-1)

12
2.5E-03
10
PF (W m-1 K-2)

2.0E-03
8
1.5E-03
6
1.0E-03 4
5.0E-04 2
0.0E+00 0
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
T (C) T (C)
Outline

• Half-Heusler NbFeSb: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: n-type

• Half-Heusler NbCoSn: p-type

• Full-Heusler VFe2Al: n-type

• Full-Heusler TiFeCoGa: n-type

• Other systems
Other systems
• LiMgBi----Phase formed, but not stable in air
• ZrCoBi----Current ZT~0.7, Collaborating with
Hangtian Zhu
• Ga2Se3----Fail
• FeS2----Fail
• etc.
Future Plan
• Keep working on p-type NbCoSn
• Further optimization on TiFeCoGa
• Searching on other full-Heusler candidates