title: Few-quintuple Bi₂Te₃ nanofilms as potential thermoelectric materials.
abstract: The thermoelectric transport properties of p-type Bi₂Te₃ nanofilms with various quintuple layers (QL) were systematically investigated based on ab initio electronic structure calculations and Boltzmann transport equations. Our results demonstrated that p-type few-quintuple Bi₂Te₃ nanofilms could exhibit high thermoelectric performance. It was found out that the 1QL Bi₂Te₃ nanofilm had the highest ZT value as compared with other nanofilms, which is mainly attributed to the significant enhancement of the density of states near the edge of the valence band resulting from the strong coupling between the top and bottom electronic states and the quantum confinement effect. The dependence of the thermoelectric transport properties on carrier concentration and temperature was also discussed in detail, which can be useful for searching high-efficiency few-quintuple Bi₂Te₃ thermoelectric nanofilms.
authors: MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing. 100084, People's Republic of China.
authors: Gang
authors: G
authors: Zhou
authors: MOE Key Laboratory of Organic OptoElectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing. 100084, People's Republic of China.
authors: Dong
authors: D
authors: Wang
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