Improvement in thermoelectric properties of an n-type bismuth telluride (Bi2Se0.3Te2.7) due to texture development and grain refinement during hot deformation

Materials Letters

Volumn 64, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1772-1775

  Srinivasan, Raghavan ^a   Gothard, Nicholas ^b   Spowart, Jonathan ^b  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bismuth telluride; Extrusion; Hot deformation; Rolling; Texture; Thermoelectric figure of merit

Indexed keywords

BASAL PLANES; BISMUTH TELLURIDE; DEFORMATION MODES; EXTRUDED MATERIALS; FIBER TEXTURE; HOT DEFORMATION; ROLLING PLANES; ROLLING TEXTURE; SINTERED POWDERS; TEXTURE CHARACTERISTICS; TEXTURE DEVELOPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

BISMUTH; DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; GRAIN REFINEMENT; SINTERING; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TEXTURES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

HOT ROLLING;

EID: 77954013623     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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