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Half-Heusler compounds have excellent power generation performance at high temperatures. The scattering mechanism is an essential factor affecting the electrical transport properties of thermoelectric materials. In computational simulations, only the role of acoustic phonon scattering on the thermoelectric properties of materials is considered, whereas other scattering mechanisms are neglected. In this work, we investigate the thermoelectric properties of NbCoGe compounds with different combinations of acoustic deformation potential, polar optical phonon, and ionised impurity scattering mechanisms. The calculated results show that the  ZT  values of  n- type and  p- type NbCoGe compounds reach 8 and 2.8, respectively, when only acoustic deformation potential scattering is considered, indicating that this sole scattering is insufficient. The calculated  ZT  values of  p- type NbCoGe compounds reach 1.8 at 1200 K and more than 1 at 800 K for  p-  and  n- type NbCoGe compounds under the combined effect of the three scattering mechanisms due to their high–power factor. This provides solid theoretical guidance for the search for potentially high–temperature half-Heusler thermoelectric materials.

First-principles research on the thermoelectric properties of NbCoGe based on the scattering mechanisms