Tailoring of Electronic Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of a Topological Crystalline Insulator by Chemical Doping

Roychowdhury, Subhajit and Shenoy, Sandhya U and Waghmare, Umesh V and Biswas, Kanishka (2016) Tailoring of Electronic Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of a Topological Crystalline Insulator by Chemical Doping. In: ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 54 (50). pp. 15241-15245.

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Abstract

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are a new quantum state of matter in which linearly dispersed metallic surface states are protected by crystal mirror symmetry. Owing to its vanishingly small bulk band gap, a TCI like Pb0.6Sn0.4Te has poor thermoelectric properties. Breaking of crystal symmetry can widen the band gap of TCI. While breaking of mirror symmetry in a TCI has been mostly explored by various physical perturbation techniques, chemical doping, which may also alter the electronic structure of TCI by perturbing the local mirror symmetry, has not yet been explored. Herein, we demonstrate that Na doping in Pb0.6Sn0.4Te locally breaks the crystal symmetry and opens up a bulk electronic band gap, which is confirmed by direct electronic absorption spectroscopy and electronic structure calculations. Na doping in Pb0.6Sn0.4Te increases p-type carrier concentration and suppresses the bipolar conduction (by widening the band gap), which collectively gives rise to a promising zT of 1 at 856 K for Pb0.58Sn0.40Na0.02Te. Breaking of crystal symmetry by chemical doping widens the bulk band gap in TCI, which uncovers a route to improve TCI for thermoelectric applications.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Publisher:	WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, POSTFACH 101161, 69451 WEINHEIM, GERMANY
Keywords:	chemical doping; crystal symmetry breaking; electronic structures; thermoelectrics; topological crystalline insulator
Department/Centre:	Others
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2016 05:36
Last Modified:	17 Feb 2016 05:36
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/53249

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