High electrical conductivity antimony selenide nanocrystals and assemblies

RJ Mehta, C Karthik, W Jiang, B Singh, Y Shi… - Nano …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Nano letters, 2010ACS Publications
Antimony selenide is a promising thermoelectric material with a high Seebeck coefficient,
but its figure of merit is limited by its low electrical conductivity. Here, we report a rapid and
scalable (gram-a-minute) microwave synthesis of one-dimensional nanocrystals of
sulfurized antimony selenide that exhibit∼ 104− 1010 times higher electrical conductivity
than non-nanostructured bulk or thin film forms of this material. As the nanocrystal diameter
increases, the nanowires transform into nanotubes through void formation and coalescence …
Antimony selenide is a promising thermoelectric material with a high Seebeck coefficient, but its figure of merit is limited by its low electrical conductivity. Here, we report a rapid and scalable (gram-a-minute) microwave synthesis of one-dimensional nanocrystals of sulfurized antimony selenide that exhibit ∼104−1010 times higher electrical conductivity than non-nanostructured bulk or thin film forms of this material. As the nanocrystal diameter increases, the nanowires transform into nanotubes through void formation and coalescence driven by axial rejection of sulfur incorporated into the nanowires from the surfactant used in our synthesis. Individual nanowires and nanotubes exhibit a charge carrier transport activation-energy of ∼<60 meV arising from surface sulfur donor states. Nanocrystal assemblies also show high electrical conductivity, making the nanocrystals attractive building blocks to realize nanostructured thin film and bulk forms of this material for thermoelectric device applications.
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