Title
Pulsed Hybrid Reactive Magnetron Sputtering for High zT Cu<inf>2</inf>Se Thermoelectric Films
Date Issued
01 July 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Perez-Taborda J.A.
Vera L.
Caballero-Calero O.
Romero J.J.
Stroppa D.G.
Briones F.
Martin-Gonzalez M.
Brazilian Center for Physics Research
Publisher(s)
Wiley-Blackwell
Abstract
Thermoelectric films on flexible substrates are of interest for the integration of thermoelectric in wearable devices. In this work, copper selenide films are achieved by a novel low-temperature technique, namely pulsed hybrid reactive magnetron sputtering (PHRMS). A brief introduction to the basic chemistry and physics involved during growth is included to explain its fundamentals. PHRMS is a single-step, room temperature (RT), fabrication process carried out in another ways conventional vacuum sputtering system. It does not require high-temperature post-annealing to obtain films with great thermoelectric performance. It is, therefore, compatible with polymeric substrates like Kapton tape. Several sets of films covering a large exploratory compositional range (from Cu/Se = 1 to 9) are deposited and their microstructure and thermoelectric properties are analyzed at RT. Power factors as high as 1.1 mW m−1 K−2 in the in-plane direction and thermal conductivities as low as κ = 0.8 ± 0.1 W m−1 K−1 in the out-of-plane direction have been obtained for β-Cu2Se films. Consequently, a figure of merit of 0.4 at RT can be estimated under the assumption that for this polycrystalline cubic phase no additional anisotropy in the thermoelectric properties is introduced by the planar configuration. Moreover, PHRMS is also industrially scalable and compatible with the in-line fabrication of other selenides.
Volume
2
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
BiofĂsica
IngenierĂa de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85038250007
Source
Advanced Materials Technologies
ISSN of the container
2365709X
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by 7th framework European project Nano-structured High-efficiency Thermo-Electric Converters project NANOHITEC 263306, ERC Nano-TEC project, the national project PHOMENTA MAT2011-27911 and Intramural project INFANTE. J.A.P.-T. acknowledges the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad for their FPI grant. The authors wish to thank the National Synchrotron Light Source at the Brazilian Synchrotron (LNLS)—XRD2 beamline— in Campinas, Brazil, for the SR-GIXRD measurements. The authors acknowledge the X-SEM Laboratory at IMM (VERIOS 460 from FEI) and funding from MINECO under project CSIC 13-4E-1794 with support from EU (FEDER, FSE).
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