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Grain boundary in NbCo(Pt)Sn half-Heusler compounds: Segregation and solute drag on grain boundary migration

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Serrano-Sánchez,  Federico
Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Luo, T., Mangelinck, D., Serrano-Sánchez, F., Fu, C., Felser, C., & Gault, B. (2022). Grain boundary in NbCo(Pt)Sn half-Heusler compounds: Segregation and solute drag on grain boundary migration. Acta Materialia, 226: 117604, pp. 1-9. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117604.


Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-F494-C
Zusammenfassung
Pt-doped NbCoSn is a promising n-type half-Heusler compound for thermoelectric applications. We show grain boundary (GB) segregation of Pt-dopants in the as-prepared sample after arc-melting and annealing (NbCo(Pt)Sn-AP), and in the as-sintered sample after ball milling and spark plasma sintering (NbCo(Pt)Sn-AS). In NbCo(Pt)Sn-AP, GBs are wetted by a 400nm-thick layer enriched with Pt and depleted in Sn. In NbCo(Pt)Sn-AS, Pt also appears enriched over only a few nanometers at GBs, but appears depleted on one side of the GBs, where Sn peaks. This anti-correlation between species is rationalized by calculating the solute-drag effect of solute on a migrating GB, i.e. assuming a bonding energy between solutes (Pt or Sn) and a moving boundary. The numerical and experimental results agree well. Our work highlights that the influence of GBs on the transport of charge carriers extends in a much wider microstructural region in the vicinity of GBs because of fluctuations in the materials composition, including the dopants. These GB-associated features should systematically be considered in the design of thermoelectric materials targeting an optimal conversion efficiency. © 2022 Acta Materialia Inc.