Filled skutterudite antimonides: A new class of thermoelectric materials

Science

Volumn 272, Issue 5266, 1996, Pages 1325-1328

  Sales, B C ^a   Mandrus, D ^a   Williams, R K ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000767916     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5266.1325     Document Type: Article

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29. Sponsored in part by a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Marlow Industries, contract CRADAX94-0324, and in part by the Division of Materials Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-ACO5-96OR22464. We thank H. B. Lyon, J. W. Sharp, G. A. Slack, J.-P. Fleurial, T. Callait, J. O. Sofo, and G. D. Mahan for illuminating discussions; R. B. Dinwiddie and H. Wang for thermal diffusivity measurements on several samples from 300 to 800 K; and P. M. Martin for helping with the precise thermal conductivity measurements near room temperature.