Enhanced longitudinal and transverse thermopowers at low temperature in quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet KMn6Bi5

Finding promising materials that show large thermoelectricity at low temperatures is crucial for low-temperature refrigeration applications. Here, we report a significantly large thermoelectric power factor (PF) up to 50 μW cm−1 K−2 at an extremely low temperature of ∼8 K in a quasi-one-dimensional...

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Published in:Applied physics letters 2023-02, Vol.122 (9)
Main Authors: Dong, Qing-xin, Huang, Yi-fei, Zhang, Li-bo, Bai, Jian-li, Cheng, Jing-wen, Liu, Qiao-yu, Liu, Pin-yu, Li, Cun-dong, Xiang, Jun-sen, Wang, Jin-feng, Ruan, Bin-Bin, Ren, Zhi-an, Sun, Pei-jie, Chen, Gen-fu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antiferromagnetism
Applied physics
Electrical resistivity
Low temperature
Power factor
Seebeck effect
Thermoelectricity
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Summary:Finding promising materials that show large thermoelectricity at low temperatures is crucial for low-temperature refrigeration applications. Here, we report a significantly large thermoelectric power factor (PF) up to 50 μW cm−1 K−2 at an extremely low temperature of ∼8 K in a quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) antiferromagnet KMn6Bi5, in which highly electrical conductivity and dramatic enhancement of Seebeck coefficient may favor its occurrence. In addition, a giant Nernst signal has also been detected with a maximum value of 24 μV K−1 T−1 at ∼5 K. All these intriguing characteristics observed in KMn6Bi5 can be attributed to the manifestation of the unusually strong coupling among spin, charge, lattice, and one dimensionality in KMn6Bi5. Our findings provide fundamental insight into the thermal transport in Q1D antiferromagnets and should stimulate further experimental exploration of thermal transport in such Q1D family for possible thermoelectric applications at extremely low temperatures.
ISSN:0003-6951
1077-3118
DOI:10.1063/5.0141225