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Phase stability and thermoelectric properties of semiconductor-like tetragonal FeAl2

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posted on 2019-09-02, 09:38 authored by Kazuki Tobita, Koichi Kitahara, Yukari Katsura, Naoki Sato, Daisuke Nishio-Hamane, Hirotada Gotou, Kaoru Kimura

Tetragonal FeAl2 is a high-pressure phase and is predicted to exhibit semiconductor-like behavior. We investigated the pressure and temperature synthesizing conditions of tetragonal FeAl2, supported by in situ X-ray diffractions, using synchrotron radiation during heating the sample under a pressure of 20 GPa. Based on the determined optimal conditions, we synthesized the bulk polycrystalline samples of tetragonal FeAl2 at 7.5 GPa and 873 K, using a multi-anvil press and measured its thermoelectric properties. The Seebeck coefficient of tetragonal FeAl2 showed a large negative value of – 105 μV/K at 155 K and rapidly changed to a positive value of 75 μV/K at 400 K. Although these values are the largest among those of Fe–Al alloys, the maximum power factor remained at 0.41 mW/mK2 because the carrier concentration was not tuned. A comparison of the Gibbs free energy of tetragonal FeAl2, triclinic FeAl2 and FeAl+Fe2Al5 revealed that tetragonal FeAl2 became unstable as the temperature increased, because of its smaller contribution of vibrational entropy.

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