Lithium as an Interstitial Donor in Bismuth and Bismuth–Antimony Alloys
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- Title
- Lithium as an Interstitial Donor in Bismuth and Bismuth–Antimony Alloys
- Authors
- Orovets, CM; Chamoire, AM; Jin, H; Wiendlocha, B; Heremans, JP
- Date Issued
- 2012-06
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Abstract
- Band structure calculations show that substitutional lithium in bismuth can form sharp density of states peaks close to the Fermi energy, suggesting the presence of a resonant level, whereas interstitial lithium is expected to act as a simple donor impurity. Experimentally, polycrystalline elemental bismuth samples doped with 0.3%, 0.7%, 1.5%, 3%, 14% (a eutectic composition between Bi and the tetragonal intermetallic compound BiLi), and 20% lithium were prepared. Single-crystal and polycrystalline Bi88Sb12 samples were also doped with lithium. The thermal and thermoelectric transport data of those compounds are reported. The data are consistent with lithium being a donor, leading to the conclusion that it is an interstitial impurity. The thermal conductivity of Bi decreases with Li content at low concentrations, but that of the Bi/BiLi eutectic composition shows the highest value.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/36768
- DOI
- 10.1007/S11664-011-1861-0
- ISSN
- 0361-5235
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, vol. 41, no. 6, page. 1648 - 1652, 2012-06
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