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Physical origin of high performance of thermoelectric clathrates encapstulating off-center guest ions

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26400381
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Mathematical physics/Fundamental condensed matter physics
Research InstitutionHokkaido University

Principal Investigator

Nakayama Tsuneyoshi  北海道大学, -, 名誉教授 (80002236)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 兼下 英司  仙台高等専門学校, 総合科学系, 准教授 (60548212)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) TAKABATAKE TOSHIRO  広島大学, 大学院・先端物質科学研究科, 名誉教授 (40171540)
SUEKUNI KOUICHIIRO  九州大学, 大学院・総合理工学研究員エネルギー物質科学部門, 准教授 (10582926)
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords熱電変換物質 / ガラス / 熱伝導 / クラスレート / 局在現象 / 中性子非弾性散乱 / THz振動数 / クラスレート化合物 / 構造ガラス / フォノン熱伝導 / ボソン・ピーク / 中性子散乱 / 非調和性
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Type-I clathrate compounds exhibit glasslike thermal/dynamic properties depending on on-center or off-center due to symmetry breaking of guest-atom positions in tetrakaidecahedron cages. All of these features are associated with the phonon dynamics in the THz region, for which we have performed large-scale numerical simulations by highlighting the difference between type-I clathrates Ba8Ga16Ge30 (BGG) with on-center guest atoms and Ba8Ga16$Sn30(BGS) with off-center guest atoms. The results of the phonon densities of states D(\omega), the dynamic structure factors S(Q,E), the specific heats C(T), and the participation ratios of eigenmodes have clearly realized a drastic change from the conventional phonon dynamics of BGG to the phonon-glass dynamics of BGS. On the basis of these results, we have given the microscopic mechanism emerging glasslike thermal/dynamics behaviors in type-I clathrate compounds with off-center guest atoms.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (21 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Peer Reviewed: 12 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 11 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 6 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Tongji University(中国)

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Theoretical investigation on thermoelectric properties of Cu-based chalcopyrite compounds2017

    • Author(s)
      B. Wang, HJ. Xiang, T. Nakayama, J. Zhou, BW. Li
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review B,

      Volume: 95 Issue: 3

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevb.95.035201

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Thermoelectric transport in hybrid materials incorporating metallic nanowires in polymer matrix,2017

    • Author(s)
      B. Liu, T. Lu, B. Wang, Liu, T. Nakayama, J. Zhou, and B. Li
    • Journal Title

      Applied Physics Letter

      Volume: 110 Issue: 11 Pages: 113102-113106

    • DOI

      10.1063/1.4978602

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Phonon-glass dynamics in thermoelectric clathrates2017

    • Author(s)
      Y. Liu, Q.Xi, J. Zhou, T.Nakayama, BW. Li
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review B

      Volume: 93 Issue: 21

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevb.93.214305

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Spin-dependent Seebeck Effect in Aharonov-Bohm Rings with Rashba and Dresselhaus Spin-orbit Interactions2016

    • Author(s)
      B. Liu, Y. Li, J. Zhou, T. Nakayama, BW. Li
    • Journal Title

      Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures

      Volume: 80 Pages: 163-167

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.physe.2016.02.003

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report 2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Interfacial thermal conductance across metal-insulator/semiconductor interfaces due to surface states2016

    • Author(s)
      Tingyu Lu, Jun Zhou, Tsuneyoshi Nakayama, Ronggui Yang and Baowen Li
    • Journal Title

      PHYSICAL REVIEW B

      Volume: 93 Issue: 8

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevb.93.085433

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report 2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Origin of in-plane anisotropic resistivity in the antiferromagnetic phase of Fe1+xTe2016

    • Author(s)
      E. Kaneshita and T. Tohyama
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review B

      Volume: 94 Issue: 4

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevb.94.045132

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Localization-delocalization transition in self-dual quasi-periodic lattices2015

    • Author(s)
      M. L. Sun, G. Wang, N. B. Li, and T. Nakayama
    • Journal Title

      Europhysics Letters (EPL)

      Volume: 110 Issue: 5 Pages: 57003-57003

    • DOI

      10.1209/0295-5075/110/57003

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Spin-dependent Seebeck effect in asymmetric four-terminal systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling2015

    • Author(s)
      Jun Zhou, Biao Wang, Mengjie Li, Tsuneyoshi Nakayama, and Baowen Li
    • Journal Title

      Europhysics Letters (EPL)

      Volume: 110 Issue: 3 Pages: 38004-38004

    • DOI

      10.1209/0295-5075/110/38004

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Reply to the Comments by Magnus Johnson2015

    • Author(s)
      M. L. Sun, G. Wang, N. B. Li, and T. Nakayama
    • Journal Title

      Europhysics Letters (EPL)

      Volume: 112 Issue: 1 Pages: 17003-17003

    • DOI

      10.1209/0295-5075/112/17003

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Orbital-selective electronic excitations in iron arsenides revealed by simulated nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering2015

    • Author(s)
      T. Tsutsui, E. Kaneshita, and T. Tohyama
    • Journal Title

      Phys. Rev. B

      Volume: 92 Issue: 19 Pages: 195103-195103

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevb.92.195103

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Phonon-glass electron-crystal thermoelectric clathrates: Experiments and theory2014

    • Author(s)
      T. Takabatake, K. Suekuni, T. Nakayama, E. Kaneshita
    • Journal Title

      Rev. Mod. Phys.

      Volume: 86 Issue: 2 Pages: 669-716

    • DOI

      10.1103/revmodphys.86.669

    • NAID

      120005440005

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Memory function approach to in-plane anisotropic resistivity in the antiferromagnetic phase of iron arsenide superconductors2014

    • Author(s)
      Koudai Sugimoto, Peter Prelovsek, Eiji Kaneshita, and Takami Tohyama
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review B

      Volume: 90 Issue: 12 Pages: 125157-125157

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevb.90.125157

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Theory of glasslike thermal conductivities of thermoelectric clathrates above the plateau2017

    • Author(s)
      Qing Xi, Jun Zhou, Tsuneyoshi Nakayama, and Baowen Li
    • Organizer
      APS March Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      New Orleans, USA
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-13
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Surface states mediated interfacial thermal conductance across metal-nonmetal interfaces2017

    • Author(s)
      Jun Zhou, Tingyu Lu,Tsuneyoshi Nakayama, Ronggui Yang, and Baowen Li
    • Organizer
      APS March Meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      New Orleans, USA
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-13
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Glasslike phonon dynamics in thermoelectric clathrates2016

    • Author(s)
      Tsuneyoshi Nakayama
    • Organizer
      The 35th Inter. Conf. & the 1st Asian conf. on thermoelectrics (ICT/ACT2016)
    • Place of Presentation
      Wuhan, P. R. China
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-29
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Thermal/dynamic properties of thermoelectric clathrates2016

    • Author(s)
      Tsuneyoshi Nakayama
    • Organizer
      The 3rd International workshop and conference on phononics and thermal energy sciences
    • Place of Presentation
      Xi’an, P. R. China
    • Year and Date
      2016-05-23
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Thermoelectric clathrates manifesting the phonon-glass electron-crystal concept2015

    • Author(s)
      Tsuneyoshi Nakayama
    • Organizer
      Martin Gutzwiller's scientific universe: From wavefunctions over periodic orbits to sun, moon and earth
    • Place of Presentation
      Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-28
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Thermoelectric clathrates: Realizing the phonon-glass electron-crystal concept2015

    • Author(s)
      Tsuneyoshi Nakayama
    • Organizer
      Phonons 2015(15th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter)
    • Place of Presentation
      The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England
    • Year and Date
      2015-07-12
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Phonon-glass electron-crystal thermoelectric clathrates2014

    • Author(s)
      T. Takabatake, K. Suekuni, T. Nakayama, and E. Kaneshita
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Strongly Correlated Systems (SCES2014) July 7-11, 2014, ,
    • Place of Presentation
      Campus Saint Martin d’Heres, Grenoble, France
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-07 – 2014-07-11
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Phonon-glass electron-crystal thermoelectric clathrates: Role of disorder guest-ions in ordered cages2014

    • Author(s)
      T. Nakayama
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Phononics and Thermal Energy Science (PTES2014) May 26-31, 2014,
    • Place of Presentation
      Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China
    • Year and Date
      2014-05-26 – 2014-05-31
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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