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Giant Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Fluorine Doped Single Walled Carbon Nanotube

Version 1 : Received: 31 May 2021 / Approved: 2 June 2021 / Online: 2 June 2021 (11:43:25 CEST)

How to cite: Adu, K.; Sakyi-Arthur, D.; Mensah, S. Y.; Mensah, N. G.; Dompreh, K. A.; Edziah, R. Giant Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Fluorine Doped Single Walled Carbon Nanotube. Preprints 2021, 2021060070. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202106.0070.v1 Adu, K.; Sakyi-Arthur, D.; Mensah, S. Y.; Mensah, N. G.; Dompreh, K. A.; Edziah, R. Giant Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Fluorine Doped Single Walled Carbon Nanotube. Preprints 2021, 2021060070. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202106.0070.v1

Abstract

Herein, we report on a giant thermoelectric figure of merit of a non-degenerate fluorine-doped single-walled carbon nanotube (FSWCNT) using a tractable analytical approach and the phonon lattice Boltzmann model (LBM). We investigate the influence of the doping concentration, and the overlapping integrals on the ZT. The ZT and the temperature range of operation can be tuned using the doping (impurity) concentration and the overlapping integrals, respectively. The lattice thermal conductivity obtained using the phonon LBM was calculated to be 107.2 W/mK which yielded a ZT greater than 20. Interestingly, the ZT obtained is higher than what has been reported in superlattices, (ZT~1.4) and superlattice nanowire, (ZT~ 4) at 300 K, making FSWCNT a potential candidate for thermoelectric applications.

Keywords

carbon nanotube; fluorine; figure of merit; thermal conductivity; electrical conductivity; Seebeck coefficient

Subject

Physical Sciences, Acoustics

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