Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a synthesis method for preparing a bismuth telluride-based N-type thermoelectric material by combining a traditional simple solid-phase reaction method and a zone melting method.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that: bismuth telluride-based N-type thermoelectric material Bi2(Te1-xSex)3The preparation method of (1). Bi with higher ZT value is prepared by traditional simple solid phase reaction and doping and zone melting combined method2Te3An N-type thermoelectric material. By adding Bi2(Te1-xSex)3Properly changing Bi content in normal chemical proportion of base thermoelectric material to synthesize Bi2(Te1-xSex)3A compound polymorph. The bismuth telluride-based N-type thermoelectric material Bi of the invention2(Te1-xSex)3The preparation method and the test method comprise the following steps:
1. the preparation method comprises the following steps:
1) the optional simple substance raw material is added according to Bi2(Te1-xSex)3X is more than or equal to 0.02 and less than or equal to 0.1, the chemical formula content is weighed, and the Bi content can be increased by 0.3 to 0.8 percent by weight on the basis of normal chemical mixture ratio; adding 0.01-0.03 wt% of metallic antimony (Sb) and 0.03-0.06 wt% of non-metallic iodine (I) on the basis of the weighed amount, wherein the purity of all simple substance raw materials is more than 4N;
2) loading the weighed materials into a quartz tube with a flat sintered bottom for vacuumizing and tube sealing, then loading into a resistance heating swing furnace, vertically placing the quartz tube, reacting at 810 +/-10 ℃ for 10-15 hours, swinging the furnace body irregularly in the reaction process, controlling the swing frequency at 0.04-0.08Hz, and swinging the furnace field until the temperature indicated value is constant, wherein the swing time fluctuates from the beginning of swinging due to the temperature of the furnace field; the time interval of the two adjacent swaying times is 0.5 to 1 hour, and the relaxation time required for the uniformity of the components of the melt is achieved mainly according to the full combination of different simple substance atoms in the melt and the mutual transmission and diffusion among the melts;
3) after the reaction is finished, the quartz tube is placed at a vertical position, then the temperature is slowly reduced to 700 +/-5 ℃ at the speed of 3 ℃/h +/-1 ℃/h, the temperature is maintained for 1 to 2 hours, then the temperature is reduced to 650 +/-5 ℃ at the speed of 5 ℃/h +/-0.5 ℃/h, and then the quartz tube is naturally cooled to the room temperature after being annealed for 3 hours at the temperature;
4) taking out the quartz tube with the temperature reduced to room temperature from the resistance-heated rocking furnace, placing the quartz tube on a vertical zone melting furnace for pulse zone melting, and moving a heating body from bottom to top. The zone melting process comprises the following steps: the zone melting temperature is 780-810 ℃, the quartz tube is static, and the heating body is driven by a variable frequency control motor to move from bottom to top at the moving speed of 0.06-0.12 mm/min; secondly, in the zone melting process, the quartz tube is transversely vibrated for 2-3 minutes by a vibration pump every 1-1.5 hours, the amplitude is 0.5-1 mm, and the frequency is 50 Hz. The polycrystalline material crystallized according to the process comprises grain mosaic of 100nm to 300nm, reduces the thermal conductivity of the material, improves the Seebeck coefficient of the material at the same time,
5) and after the heating body is lifted to the position above the top of the material in the tube, the material synthesis is finished after the material in the quartz tube is observed to be crystallized.
2. The test method comprises the following steps: the electrical conductivity and seebeck coefficient measurements were performed on ULVAC ZEM-3, the thermal diffusivity test was performed on a relaxation-resistant laser thermal conductivity meter (Netzsch LFA 467) (argon atmosphere, pyroceram9606 as standard), and the thermal conductivity was calculated from the formula κ (T) ═ α (T) × cp (T) × ρ (T). Wherein α (T) denotes a thermal diffusion coefficient, cp (T) denotes a pressure heat capacity, and ρ (T) denotes a density of the test sample.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. the requirement on the purity of raw materials is low (only 4N), the preparation process is simple, and the traditional solid-phase reaction combined with a zone melting method can directly obtain the block material with high density and good uniformity.
2. Because a pulse zone melting method is adopted, crystal grains of 100nm to 300nm are introduced into the polycrystalline material for embedding, the thermal conductivity of the material is reduced, the Seebeck coefficient of the material is improved, and the remarkable improvement of the thermoelectric property of the block material is realized;
3. bi of the present invention2(Te1-xSex)3The compound has outstanding thermoelectric performance and high compactness, and is likely to be applied to the fields of waste heat recovery, space exploration and the like.
Detailed Description
Example 1:
the optional simple substance raw material is added according to Bi2(Te0.92Se0.08)3Weighing the chemical formula, wherein Te is 500 g, and the Bi content can be increased by 0.4 percent by weight on the basis of normal chemical mixture ratio; adding 0.02 wt% of metal antimony (Sb) and 0.03 wt% of non-metal iodine (I) on the basis of the weighed amount, wherein the purity of all elementary substance raw materials is more than 4N;
the weighed materials are put into a quartz tube with a flat sintered bottom for vacuumizing and tube sealing, then the quartz tube is put into a resistance heating swing furnace, the quartz tube is vertically placed for reaction at 800 ℃ for 12 hours, the furnace body is swung irregularly in the reaction process, firstly, the swing frequency is controlled at 0.04Hz, the swing time fluctuates from the beginning of swing of the furnace field temperature until the temperature indicated value is constant; secondly, the interval of the two adjacent swinging times is 50 minutes, after the reaction is finished, the quartz tube is placed at a vertical position, then the temperature is slowly reduced to 700 ℃ at the speed of 3 ℃/h, the temperature is maintained for 1 hour, then the temperature is reduced to 65 ℃ at the speed of 5 ℃/h, and then the quartz tube is naturally cooled to the room temperature after being annealed for 3 hours at the temperature; taking out the quartz tube with the temperature reduced to room temperature from the resistance-heated rocking furnace, placing the quartz tube on a vertical zone melting furnace for pulse zone melting, and moving a heating body from bottom to top. The zone melting process comprises the following steps: the zone melting temperature is 790 ℃, the quartz tube is static, and the heating body is driven by a variable frequency control motor to move from bottom to top at the moving speed of 0.08 mm/min; secondly, in the zone melting process, transverse vibration is applied to the quartz tube for 2 minutes by a vibration pump every 1.5 hours, the amplitude is 0.5mm, and the frequency is 50 Hz. And after the heating body is lifted to the position above the top of the material in the tube, the material synthesis is finished after the material in the quartz tube is observed to be crystallized.
Example 2:
cutting and polishing sample (Bi)1-xSbx)2Te3And performing thermoelectric performance test. (Bi) prepared by the above method1- xSbx)2Te3The block samples were cut with a wire cutter and then sanded. Cutting basic wafers and cuboid samples by a cutting machine, and then polishing by abrasive paper; the disc samples were 2.0mm thick and 12.0mm in diameter. The cross-sectional area of the cuboid was 2.5 x 2.5mm2 and the wafers were tested for thermal diffusivity on a relaxation resistant (NETZSCH) LFA467 laser thermal conductivity meter using pyropream 9606 as a standard and tested under an argon atmosphere. The samples were tested for conductivity and seebeck coefficient on ULVAC ZEM-3.
Example 3:
sample (Bi)1-xSbx)2Te3Thermoelectric performance test results of
The above test results show that the resistivity increases with increasing temperature, from 10.1 x 10-6 Ω m at room temperature to 2.7 x 10-5 Ω m at 480K. The absolute value of the Seebeck coefficient increases with the temperature, and reaches a maximum of 247 muV/K at 320KAnd then decreased. Seebeck coefficient is positive (Bi)1-xSbx)2Te3Is a hole. The thermal conductivity becomes smaller with increasing temperature, wherein the thermal conductivity around room temperature is 1.3W/m.K. According to the figure of merit calculation formula of the thermoelectric material: (Bi) S2 sigma/K, where S is the Seebeck coefficient of the material, sigma is the electrical conductivity, and K is the thermal conductivity, can be obtained1-xSbx)2Te3The ZT value of the sample was 1.33 at 340K.