Colossal Seebeck coefficient of thermoelectric material calculated by space charge effect, and phonon drag background

Abstract

Recently colossal Seebeck coefficient ($S$) has found in the several thermoelectric (TE) materials. We present colossal $S$ and large thermal electron motivate force (EMF) reproduced by space charge (SC) model, introducing multi-Debye lengths within grain boundaries (GBs) of TE materials with phonon drag (PD) effect accompanying with electron by electron-phonon interaction. In addition to $S$, the polarity reversal was also reproduced by transfer process with inner bias around SP generated from thermal EMF. Colossal $S$ and EMF for TE material were reproduced by inner SC model as a functions of averaged multi-Debye length within GBs.