Carrier filtering effect for enhanced thermopower in a body-centered tetragonal ruthenate
arXiv:2309.05313 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.125401
Abstract
Charged carriers in solids diffuse from hot to cold sides under temperature gradient to induce the thermoelectric voltage. Carrier filtering effect, which only passes either electrons or holes for the conduction process, is an efficient method to enhance such voltage, although it is challenging to experimentally realize it especially in conventional metals with weak energy dependence of the density of states near the Fermi level. Here we measure the in-plane and out-of-plane thermopower of the layered perovskite SrRuO single crystals above room temperature, and find that the out-of-plane thermopower is largely enhanced with increasing temperature, while the in-plane one seems to remain a temperature-independent constant value which is expected from the Heikes formula. The observed large out-of-plane thermopower may originate from the recently proposed intriguing hole filtering effect in the body-centered tetragonal system, in which the carrier hopping through the centered atom is essential. Thus, the present carrier filtering effect may be a universal property to be applicable in various materials belonging to such crystal system.
arXiv comment7 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Materials
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