# Enhancing thermoelectric properties of ScN films through twin domains

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7c74d19e-7e99-4374-ba3e-8c7ae6a1fb6f

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2025-11-08T15:33:43.135616Z

## Updated at

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## Published at

2025-11-10T23:22:14.101640Z

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## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsadv.2024.100674

## Date published

2024-12-24

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2025-1

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## Title

- title: Enhancing thermoelectric properties of ScN films through twin domains
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Tailoring thermoelectric properties of ScN-based materials is of vital
    importance for their application, particularly at high operating temperatures.
    Here, we report on the thermoelectric properties of the ScN layers deposited on
    MgO (001) substrates by the DC reactive magnetron sputtering. The microstructure
    of the produced thin films is examined by X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy,
    while their chemical composition and contamination by defects are determined by
    X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The effect of temperature on the phonon properties
    of ScN layers, having implications for their thermoelectric properties, is explored
    by Raman spectroscopy. The results of our experiments are confronted with those
    following from the first-principles studies. We find that the ScN/MgO(001) layers
    with twin-domain structure reveal enhanced thermoelectric properties at elevated
    temperature as compared to those measured for almost defect- and domain-free layers,
    namely, enlarged Seebeck coefficient by about 30% and over two and a half times
    increased figure of merit at 800 K. Therefore, structural twin domains in thin
    ScN film appear to be a simple and rather stable solution for the improvement
    of its thermoelectric properties at elevated temperatures.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: und

## Creator

- name: J. More-Chevalier
  role: author
- name: U.D. Wdowik
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- name: J. Martan
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- name: T. Baba
  role: author
- name: S. Cichoň
  role: author
- name: P. Levinský
  role: author
- name: D. Legut
  role: author
- name: E. de Prado
  role: author
- name: P. Hruška
  role: author
- name: J. Pokorný
  role: author
- name: J. Bulíř
  role: author
- name: C. Beltrami
  role: author
- name: T. Mori
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2682-1846
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: M. Novotný
  role: author
- name: I. Gregora
  role: author
- name: L. Fekete
  role: author
- name: L. Volfová
  role: author
- name: J. Lančok
  role: author

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organization: Elsevier BV

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## Keyword

- subject: thermoelectric
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## Rights

- identifier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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## Journal

- title: Applied Surface Science Advances
  issn: '26665239'
  volume: '25'
  article_number: '100674'

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## Funding

- identifier: SENDISO - CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004596
  funder_name: Ministry of Education Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
- identifier: '90254'
  funder_name: Ministry of Education Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
- funder_name: Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Modelowania Matematycznego i Komputerowego
    UW
- funder_name: Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal
- identifier: 23-07228S
  funder_name: Czech Science Foundation

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