Large modulation of thermal transport in 2D semimetal triphosphides by doping-induced electron-phonon coupling

Abstract

Recent studies demonstrate that novel 2D triphosphides semiconductors possess high carrier mobility and promising thermoelectric performance, while the carrier transport behaviors in 2D semimetal triphosphides have never been elucidated before. Herein, using the first-principles calculations and Boltzmann transport theory, we reveal that the electron-phonon coupling can be significant and thus greatly inhibits the electron and phonon transport in electron-doped BP3 and CP3. The intrinsic heat transport capacity of flexural acoustic phonon modes in the wrinkle structure is largely suppressed arising from the strong out-of-plane phonon scatterings, leading to the low phonon thermal conductivity of 1.36 and 5.33 W/(mK) for BP3 and CP3 at room temperature, and at high doping level, the enhanced scattering from electron diminishes the phonon thermal conductivity by 71% and 54% for BP3 and CP3, respectively. Instead, electron thermal conductivity shows nonmonotonic variations with the increase of doping concentration, stemming from the competition between electron-phonon scattering rates and electron group velocity. It is worth noting that the heavy-doping effect induced strong scattering from phonon largely suppresses the electron transport and reduces electron thermal conductivity to the magnitude of phonon thermal conductivity. This work sheds light on the electron and phonon transport properties in semimetal triphosphides monolayer and provides an efficient avenue for the modulation of carrier transport by doping-induced electron-phonon coupling effect.

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