The invention relates to a
sulfur-group lead-compound thermoelectric material and a preparation method thereof. The
chemical formula of the
sulfur-group lead-compound thermoelectric material is Pb(1-x)Sb(2x / 3)Se, wherein the x is larger than 0 and is less than 0.09. According to the preparation method, a high-purity simple substance is used as a
raw material; batching is carried out based on a stoichiometric ratio in the
chemical formula; after vacuum packaging, high-temperature melting, and annealing heat treatment are carried out,
grinding is carried out to obtain
powder; vacuum
hot pressing sintering and
slow cooling are carried out to obtain a sheet type block material that is a
lead selenide material based on target components. A controllable preparation method of forming a
dislocation structure by introducing a Pb positive
ion vacancy structure is designed; and because a high-density transgranular
dislocation structure is introduced into the material, intermediate-frequency phonons can be scattered effectively, so that the lattic
thermal conductivity, less than 0.4W / m-K, of the material, can be reduced substantially. According to the prepared novel high-performance thermoelectric material based on Pb(1-x)Sb(2x / 3)Se, the zT value reaches 1.6 on the condition of 900K, wherein the zT value is a highest value of the existing PbSe
system terminal. Therefore, the
sulfur-group lead-compound thermoelectric material is a novel thermoelectric material with great large-scale application potential.