ダブルペロブスカイト型酸化物の 热电性能に対する光ドーピング效果.pdfVIP

The Murata Science Foundation ダブルペロブスカイト型酸化物の 熱電性能に対する光ドーピング効果 Photo-Doing Effect on the Thermoelectric Properties of Double-Perovskite Oxides H2513 代表研究者 岡　崎　竜　二 名古屋大学　理学部　物理学科　助教 Ryuji Okazaki Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Nagoya University Thermoelectric power generation is an environmentally friendly energy-conversion technology. An important feature in thermoelectrics is that it is utilized in various situations due to its simple structure without any moving parts compared with other heat engines. This is highly favorable for harvesting electricity from waste heat, a large amount of which is exhausted from a wide variety of heat sources such as automobiles or power plant boilers. It is recently shown that the solar light is also used as the heat source to produce the electricity through a thermoelectric device. This utilizes the solar thermal process, known as the solar thermoelectric generator. Another way for a usage of the solar light with thermoelectrics is to use the photovoltaic effect. When the photon energy of irradiated light exceeds the band-gap energy, the electron-hole pairs are created in insulating materials. Such excited carriers contribute to the electrical transport, as well as the thermoelectric transport. Photo-Seebeck effect, the Seebeck effect of photo-induced carriers, is expected to be observed under illumination. Here we report the observation of photo- Seebeck effect in tetragonal PbO single crystals. The photo-induced carriers contribute to the transport phenomena, and consequently the electrical resistivity decreases and the Seebeck coefficient decreases with increasing photon flux density. A parallel-circuit model is used to evaluate the contr