Electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of CoAsSb with post-DFT approaches

Abstract

We study the electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of recently synthesized CoAsSb. The calculated bandgap becomes more accurate for increasingly-complex electronic structure methods: generalized gradient approximation, hybrid functionals, self-consistent linearized quasiparticle GW method (LQSGW), and LQSGW with simplified vertex corrections. By equating the bandgaps of each method from a rigid shift of the bands, we evaluate the contributions made to thermoelectric properties beyond the bandgap. In doing so, we evaluate the efficacy of a common-practice: a rigid shift applied to less-costly electronic structure methods in order to gain some accuracy of the more-costly methods. We find that while the shift made the Seebeck coefficients much closer to one another than from the original electronic structures, there remain differences in the Goldsmid-Sharp (thermoelectric) bandgap between the methods and from the intended electronic bandgap. Additionally, some lasting differences in temperature dependence remain between the methods.

arXiv comment7 pages, 5 figures

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