Kouta Mori, Hidetomo Usui, Hirofumi Sakakibara, Kazuhiko Kuroki
The origin of the recently discovered large thermopower in hole-doped PtSb$_2$ is theoretically analyzed based on a model constructed from first principles band calculation. It is found that the valence band dispersion has an overall flatness combined with some local ups and downs, which gives small Fermi surfaces scattered over the entire Brillouin zone. The Seebeck coefficient is calculated using this model, which gives good agreement with the experiment. We conclude that the good thermoelectric property originates from this "corrugated flat band", where the coexistence of large Seebeck coefficient and large electric conductivity is generally expected.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6181
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