HIGH EFFECIENT EXTRUDED MATERIAL FOR LOW TEMPERATURE ELECTRONIC COOLERS ON THE BASE OF Bi0,85Sb0,15

M. M. Tagiyev, F. S. Samedov, Z. F. Agayev

Institute of Photoelectronics of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

In present work high efficient and firm extruded material on the base of Bi0,85Sb0,85 solid solutions are obtained for low temperature coolers. Thermo- and magnetothermoelectric figures of merit of developing material are sufficiently high and close to those for the monocrystalline samples, but firmness on bending in ~ 3 times exceeds firmness of monocrystalline samples. When doping samples Bi0,85Sb0,15 with 0,0005 at. % Te Z grows and reaches values 6,2 10-3 K-1. Magnetothermoelectrical figure of merit (Zmte) Bi0,85Sb0,15 solid solutions, doped with 0,0005 at. % Te at the temperature ~ 77 K and intensity of magnetic field ~ 11 104 A/m, has a value equal ~ 7,2 10-3 K-1. It is shown that under doping of the samples Bi0,85Sb0,15 by atoms with the concentration 0,05 at. % and more, changing a type of conductivity from electronic to hole occurs at temperatures below ~ 130 K, that leads to inversions of sign of factors coefficients a and RH Z for the samples of p-type conductivity reaches values ~ 0,84 10-3 K-1 at ~ 77 K.