• 文献标题:   Exotic thermoelectric behavior in nitrogenated holey graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHAO YC, DAI ZH, LIAN C, MENG S
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  • 出版物名称:   RSC ADVANCES
  • ISSN:   2046-2069
  • 通讯作者地址:   Yantai Univ
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1039/c7ra03597g
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Combining first-principles approaches with the Boltzmann transport equation and semi-classical analysis we investigate the thermal conductivity kappa, thermopower S, electrical conductivity sigma, and carrier mobility mu of newly synthesized nitrogenated holey graphene (NHG). Strikingly, the NHG possesses exceedingly high S and sigma but a fairly low lattice thermal conductivity k(L), and therefore extraordinary thermoelectric properties, with a figure of merit zT even exceeding 5.0, are obtained in the n-type doped NHG. The outstanding thermoelectric behavior of NHG is attributed to its exotic atomic and electronic structure: (i) strong anharmonic phonon scattering results in a very low k(L); (ii) flat bands around the Fermi level together with a large band gap cause high S; and (iii) conduction band dipping at the Brillouin zone center leads to a high electron mobility mu and thus high sigma.