Thermoelectric properties of spark plasma sintered composites based on TiNiSn half-Heusler alloys

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1919-1924

  Gelbstein, Yaniv ^a   Tal, Nadav ^a   Yarmek, Aviad ^a   Rosenberg, Yoav ^a   Dariel, Moshe P ^a   Ouardi, Siham ^b   Balke, Benjamin ^b   Felser, Claudia ^b   Köhne, Martin ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dopant; Thermoelectric; Thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

DOPANT; HALF-HEUSLER; HALF-HEUSLER ALLOYS; HEUSLER COMPOUND; HIGH POTENTIAL; INTERMETALLIC PHASIS; MULTI-PHASED SYSTEMS; MULTICOMPONENTS; POWER GENERATION APPLICATIONS; SPARK PLASMA; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

CERIUM ALLOYS; ELECTRIC SPARKS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; THERMOELECTRICITY; TIN; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

TIN ALLOYS;

EID: 81455135658     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.107     Document Type: Article

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