Effects of multi-scale defects on the thermoelectric properties of delafossite CuCr1-xMgxO2 materials

The thermoelectric performance of CuCr1-xMgxO2 materials in terms of multi-scale defects induced at various Mg dopant concentrations (x = 0–0.3) was thoroughly studied in this paper. At 748 K and for x = 0.05, 0.15, and 0.30, we report the following power factors and thermal conductivities: 175, 213, and 2.3 μW/m K2 and 7.85, 5.60, and 3.82 W/m K, respectively. In the low doping regime (x