Reduction of Lattice Thermal Conductivity in PbTe Induced by Artificially Generated Pores. (8th March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hwang, Jae-Yeol; Kim, Eun Sung; Hasan, Syed Waqar; Choi, Soon-Mok; Lee, Kyu Hyoung; Kim, Sung Wng
• Other Names: Choudhary Ram N. P. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in condensed matter physics. Volume 2015(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-03-08
• Subjects: Condensed matter -- Periodicals; Condensed matter; Periodicals; 530.41
• DOI: 10.1155/2015/496739
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-8124

Abstract

Abstract : Highly dense pore structure was generated by simple sequential routes using NaCl and PVA as porogens in conventional PbTe thermoelectric materials, and the effect of pores on thermal transport properties was investigated. Compared with the pristine PbTe, the lattice thermal conductivity values of pore-generated PbTe polycrystalline bulks were significantly reduced due to the enhanced phonon scattering by mismatched phonon modes in the presence of pores (200 nm–2 μ m) in the PbTe matrix. We obtained extremely low lattice thermal conductivity (~0.56 W m −1 K −1 at 773 K) in pore-embedded PbTe bulk after sonication for the elimination of NaCl residue.