Anomalously large measured thermoelectric power factor in Sr(1-x)La(x)TiO(3) thin films due to SrTiO(3) substrate reduction Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report the observation that thermoelectric thin films of La-doped SrTiO 3 grown on SrTiO 3 substrates yield anomalously high values of thermopower to give extraordinary values of power factor at 300 K. Thin films of Sr0.98 La0.02 TiO 3 , grown via pulsed laser deposition at low temperature and low pressure (450 C, 10-7 Torr), do not yield similarly high values when grown on other substrates. The thin-film growth induces oxygen reduction in the SrTiO 3 crystals, doping the substrate n type. It is found that the backside resistance of the SrTiO 3 substrates is as low (12) as it is on the film side after film growth. 2008 American Institute of Physics.

published proceedings

  • APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

altmetric score

  • 4

author list (cited authors)

  • Scullin, M. L., Yu, C., Huijben, M., Mukerjee, S., Seidel, J., Zhan, Q., ... Ramesh, R.

citation count

  • 53

complete list of authors

  • Scullin, Matthew L||Yu, Choongho||Huijben, Mark||Mukerjee, Subroto||Seidel, Jan||Zhan, Qian||Moore, Joel||Majumdar, Arun||Ramesh, R

publication date

  • January 2008