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Nanoscale. 2017 Oct 26;9(41):16093-16100. doi: 10.1039/c7nr04766e.

High thermoelectric performances of monolayer SnSe allotropes.

Nanoscale

Zi-Yu Hu, Kai-Yue Li, Yong Lu, Yan Huang, Xiao-Hong Shao

Affiliations

  1. College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China. [email protected].

PMID: 29038807 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr04766e

Abstract

α-SnSe is one of the most promising thermoelectric materials with low thermal conductivity and a high power factor. Since the thermoelectric properties of a material have a strong dependence on its crystal structure, we study the energetic and thermoelectric properties of four new monolayer phases of SnSe (β, γ, δ and ε) together with α-SnSe using the ab initio density functional theory method. The calculated electronic structures show that all five phases are semiconductors with different band gaps. The α, β, γ, and δ phases have an indirect band gap with the hybridization of sp

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