About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Alloys and Compounds for Thermoelectric and Solar Cell Applications XIII
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Presentation Title |
Study of the Thermoelectric Properties of MnFe2O4 Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition |
Author(s) |
Paolo Mele, Alberto Giribaldi, Anoop Divakaran, Giovanna Latronico, Hannes Rijckaert, Marco Antonio Lopez de la Torre, Kazumasa Iida, Tsunehiro Takeuchi, Cristina Artini |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Paolo Mele |
Abstract Scope |
Oxides belonging to the spinel ferrite family MFe2O4 (M = Mn, Rh, Cr, Mo) have been theoretically investigated and identified as potentially high-performance thermoelectrics [1]. We fabricated MnFe2O4 films via PLD on silica substrates. All the films show n-type behavior. The preferred growth orientation is along the (311) crystallographic direction. Crystallinity and grain size improve with the increase of the deposition temperature up to 700 °C. The thin film deposited at 700 °C showed ultra-high room-temperature absolute value of the Seebeck coefficient S = 665 μV/K, apparently confirming the computational predictions. However, measurements at increasing temperature performed in a vacuum changed the scenario and maximum absolute value of S dropped to 175 μV/K. Annealing under different conditions was conducted to investigate this behavior. The results will be discussed at the conference.
[1] M. H. N. Assadi, J. Gutiérrez Moreno, M. Fronzi, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3, 5666 |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Thin Films and Interfaces, Nanotechnology, Other |