Study of Zn-substituted germanium clathrates as high performance thermoelectric materials assisted by first-principles electronic structure calculation

Materials Transactions

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 631-639

  Eto, Takeshi ^a   Kishimoto, Kengo ^a   Koga, Kenji ^b   Akai, Koji ^a   Koyanagi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Anno, Hiroaki ^b   Tanaka, Terumitsu ^a   Kurisu, Hiroki ^a   Yamamoto, Setsuo ^a   Matsuura, Mitsuru ^c  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ba8Zn6Ga4Ge 36; BagZn xGe46x; Clathrate compounds; Electronic structure; Spark plasma sintering; The first principle electronic calculation; Thermoelectric properties

Indexed keywords

BA8ZN6GA4GE 36; BAGZN XGE46X; CLATHRATE COMPOUNDS; THE FIRST PRINCIPLE ELECTRONIC CALCULATION; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

BARIUM; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC SPARKS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; GERMANIUM; HYDRATES; MECHANICAL ALLOYING; MOLECULAR SIEVES; PLASMAS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

ZINC;

EID: 65449169649     PISSN: 13459678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.E-MRA2008846     Document Type: Article

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