کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1515180 994538 2015 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Temperature dependent solubility of Yb in Yb–CoSb3 skutterudite and its effect on preparation, optimization and lifetime of thermoelectrics
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی مواد مواد الکترونیکی، نوری و مغناطیسی
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Temperature dependent solubility of Yb in Yb–CoSb3 skutterudite and its effect on preparation, optimization and lifetime of thermoelectrics
چکیده انگلیسی

Although filled skutterudites are actively being developed for automotive waste heat recovery the compositions considered available are limited. Typically synthesis conditions are chosen with slight excess filling element to produce filled skutterudites at the ‘filling fraction limit’, traditionally considered to be a single value that depends only on the elements involved (e.g. filling element, Co/Fe ratio). The filling fraction limit is often debated and thought perhaps to vary with processing method. This work opens up a new dimension of available compositions by showing that the ‘filling fraction limit’ is a thermodynamic quantity that for Yb varies by a factor of 5 depending on annealing temperature and nominal composition. As the filling element controls the electronic doping in these semiconductors this study not only enables optimization of thermoelectric properties using thermodynamic control rather than non-equilibrium processing conditions (reaching zT = 1.3 at 850 K without nanostructures) but it also predicts dopant precipitation effects after extended use. The novel phase diagram approach used here should be easily applied to other ternary thermoelectric materials to uncover similar phenomena. Thus skutterudite material with the optimized thermoelectric composition can be produced from a range of nominal compositions with appropriate annealing.

Skutterudite material with the optimized thermoelectric composition can be produced from a range of nominal compositions with appropriate annealin.Figure optionsDownload as PowerPoint slide

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Materiomics - Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 75–84
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