A combinatorial film of the LaCo1-xCrxO3 system was fabricated using the LaCoO3 and LaCrO3 targets at the NIST Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) facility. As the ionic size of Cr3+ is greater than that of Co3+, the unit cell volume of the series increases with increasing x. Using a custom screening tool, the Seebeck coefficient of LaCo1-xCrxO3 approaches a measured maximum of 286 μV/K, near to the cobalt-rich end of the film library (with x ≈ 0.49). The resistivity value increases continuously with increasing x. The measured power factor, PF, of this series, which is related to the efficiency of energy conversion, also exhibits a maximum at the composition of x ≈ 0.49, which corresponds to the maximum value of the Seebeck coefficient. Our results illustrate the efficiency of applying the high-throughput combinatorial technique to study thermoelectric materials.
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Talley, K. R., Barron, S. C., Nguyen, N., Wong-Ng, W., Martin, J., Zhang, Y. L., & Song, X. (2017). Thermoelectric properties of the LaCoO3-LaCrO3 system using a high-throughput combinatorial approach. Solid State Sciences, 64, 7–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2016.12.002
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