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Synthesis and thermoelectric power factor of LSCO perovskites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Julio E. Rodriguez
Julio E. Rodriguez*
Affiliation:
jerodriguezl@unal.edu.co, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Department of Physics, Apartado Aereo 85814, Bogota, Cund., o1, Colombia, (571) 3165000 ext. 13034/13021, (571)3165135
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Abstract

Measurements of Seebeck coefficient, S(T) and electrical resistivity, ρ(T) on polycrystalline La2−xSrxCuO4+d(LSCO) (0<x≤0.2) samples are reported. The Seebeck coefficient is positive in whole measured temperature range (77K and 300K) and it decreases with Sr content. At room temperature S(T) changes from 400 μ/K for the samples with the lowest levels of Sr to 30 μV/K for the samples with the highest Sr levels. The behavior of S(T) fits to Heikes model, which describes the behavior of Seebeck coefficient in systems where the correlated hopping is present. With the Sr content, the electrical resistivity changes its behavior from semiconducting to metallic and it took values from 2.4 to 10−3 Ωcm. From S(T) and rho(T) measurements the thermoelectric power factor, PF was obtained. The maximum values for PF were about 5 μW/K2cm in the samples where x= 0.03, which are comparable to the typical values for conventional thermoelectric semiconductors. The structural and morphological properties of the samples were studied by x-ray diffraction analysis and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) respectively. The behavior of transport properties opens de possibility of considering this family of perovskite-compounds as a thermoelectric material which works below room temperature.

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thermoelectricityceramicoxide

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