On the design of high-efficiency thermoelectric clathrates through a systematic cross-substitution of framework elements

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 755-763

  Shi, Xun ^a,c   Yang, Jiong ^a   Bai, Shengqiang ^b   Yang, Jihui ^b   Wang, Hsin ^d   Chi, Miaofang ^d   Salvador, James R ^a   Zhang, Wenqing ^b   Chen, Lidong ^b   Wong Ng, Winnie ^e  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^c Optimal Inc   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; CLATHRATES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURES; IONIZED IMPURITIES; LATTICE DEFECTS; LATTICE PHONONS; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS; POWER FACTORS; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION-METAL SUBSTITUTION;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; DEFECTS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; HYDRATES; POINT DEFECTS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; ZINC;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 77649229943     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200901817     Document Type: Article

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