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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Alloys and Compounds Année : 2024

AsTe3: A novel crystalline semiconductor with ultralow thermal conductivity obtained by congruent crystallization from parent glass

Christophe Candolfi
Vivian Nassif
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Bertrand Lenoir

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The synthesis of novel narrow-band-gap semiconductors with ultralow thermal conductivity opens a pathway to the design of functional materials with high thermoelectric performance or with interesting optical sensitivity in the infrared range. Here, we report on the discovery of the novel crystalline binary AsTe3 (c- AsTe3) prepared by spark plasma sintering (SPS) from full and congruent crystallization of amorphous AsTe3 (a-AsTe3) previously prepared by twin roller quenching. X-ray diffraction suggests that the structure of c-AsTe3 can be described as a superstructure of elementary Te with a specific distribution of As and Te atoms. More specifically, it appears as an intergrowth of a Te subunit (3 atoms) and As2Te5 subunit (6 As + 15 Te atoms) separated with interlayer spaces. The optical trans- mittance measured on both crystalline and amorphous AsTe3 indicates a maximum transmittance of 22 % over the infrared range 10–25 μm. Transport properties measurements, performed between 5 and 375 K, reveal that AsTe3 behaves as a lightly doped, p-type semiconductor. The complex crystal structure combined with a small-grain-size microstructure of the sample yields extremely low lattice thermal conductivity values of 0.35 W m−1 K−1 near 300 K. This poor ability to conduct heat is the main property that gives rise to an estimated dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of ~0.3 at 375 K. These findings show that the recrys- tallization of amorphous phases by SPS provides an effective approach for stabilizing novel phases with interesting functional properties.
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hal-04671409 , version 1 (14-08-2024)

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Jean-Baptiste Vaney, Cédric Morin, Julie Carreaud, Christophe Candolfi, Andrea Piarristeguy, et al.. AsTe3: A novel crystalline semiconductor with ultralow thermal conductivity obtained by congruent crystallization from parent glass. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2024, 1004, pp.175918. ⟨10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.175918⟩. ⟨hal-04671409⟩
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