Phonon density of states and atomic thermal displacement on the figure of merit of MgAgSb-based thermoelectric materials

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Quite recently, the high thermoelectric performance has been reported in the MgAgSb-based half Heusler alloys. The ZT values close to 1 at room temperature with a maximum of ZT = 1.4 at 475K make them a possible candidate as room-temperature thermoelectric generator. But their crystallographic structure and dynamics are rarely known, except a structural study on impurity sample above the room temperature up to now. By virtue of our single phase samples, we hope that those MARI measurements will map out the PDOS softening and broadening with increasing temperature to justify the effect of anharmonicity and GEM measurements will to get isotropic mean-square displacement and even anisotropic thermal factors, as a function of temperature, to judge whether there exists the static and/or dynamic displacement, thus also test extensively the speculation of atomic relaxation in nanostructure.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79110746
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Creator Professor Junrong Zhang; Dr Lunhua He; Dr Tatiana Guidi; Professor Fangwei Wang; Mr Xiyang Li
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-04-22T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-04-27T08:00:00Z