Abstract
Understanding the complex phenomenon behind the structural transformations is a key requisite to developing important solid-state materials with better efficacy such as transistors, resistive switches, thermoelectrics, etc. AgCuS, a superionic semiconductor, exhibits temperature-dependent p-n-p-type conduction switching and a colossal jump in thermopower during an orthorhombic to hexagonal superionic transition. Tuning of p-n-p-type conduction switching in superionic compounds is fundamentally important to realize the correlation between electronic/phonon dispersion modulation with changes in the crystal structure and bonding, which might contribute to the design of better thermoelectric materials. Herein, we have created extrinsic Ag/Cu nonstoichiometry in AgCuS, which resulted in the vanishing of p-n-p-type conduction switching and improved its thermoelectric properties. We have performed the selective removal of cations and measured their temperature-dependent thermopower and Hall coefficient, which demonstrates only p-type conduction in the Ag1- xCuS and AgCu1- xS samples. The removal of Cu is much more efficient in arresting conduction switching, whereas in the case of Ag vacancy, p-n-p-type conduction switching vanishes a...Continue Reading
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