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Materials Data on Mg3Sb2 by Materials Project

Mg3Sb2 crystallizes in the trigonal P-3m1 space group. The structure is three-dimensional. there are two inequivalent Mg2+ sites. In the first Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to six equivalent Sb3- atoms to form MgSb6 octahedra that share corners with twelve equivalent MgSb4 tetrahedra, edges with six equivalent MgSb6 octahedra, and edges with six equivalent MgSb4 tetrahedra. All Mg–Sb bond lengths are 3.12 Å. In the second Mg2+ site, Mg2+ is bonded to four equivalent Sb3- atoms to form MgSb4 tetrahedra that share corners with six equivalent MgSb6 octahedra, corners with six equivalent MgSb4 tetrahedra, edges with three equivalent MgSb6 octahedra, and edges with three equivalent MgSb4 tetrahedra. The corner-sharing octahedra tilt angles range from 10–58°. There are three shorter (2.85 Å) and one longer (2.96 Å) Mg–Sb bond lengths. Sb3- is bonded to seven Mg2+ atoms to form a mixture of distorted edge and corner-sharing SbMg7 pentagonal bipyramids.

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DOE OSTI2021

Compromise between band structure and phonon scattering in efficient n-Mg 3 Sb 2-x Bi x thermoelectrics

n-type Mg 3 Sb 2 -based materials have become a top candidate for efficient thermoelectric applications within 300–700 K, due to its high band degeneracy, inherently high carrier mobility and low lattice thermal conductivity, as well as its advantages of less toxicity and abundance. Existing works showed that Mg 3 Bi 2 -alloying largely help ensure the exceptional performance, leaving a key issue to be uncovered on the primary mechanisms favoring or limiting the thermoelectric performance of Mg 3 Sb 2-x Bi x alloys. Furthermore we focus on the alloy composition dependent transport properties at various temperatures, with a large volume of experimental data. It is revealed that, with increasing x, the reduction in both inertial mass and lattice thermal conductivity is significantly beneficial, but the closure in band gap leads to a strong compensation due to the bipolar effect. Such a compromise between band structure and phonon scattering results in optimal Mg 3 Bi 2 -alloying concentrations to be about 50%–75% at 300 K, 50%–60% at 450 K and 50% at 600 K, which successfully guiding this work to realize extraordinary thermoelectric figure of merit at these temperatures.

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