Thermoelectric nanocomposite from the metastable void filling in caged skutterudite

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1848-1856

  Xiong, Zhen ^a   Xi, Lili ^a   Ding, Juan ^a   Chen, Xihong ^a   Huang, Xiangyang ^a   Gu, Hui ^a   Chen, Lidong ^a   Zhang, Wenqing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Microstructure; Nanoscale; Thermoelectric

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING PROCEDURES; AVERAGE SIZE; CONTROLLED COOLING; FILLED-SKUTTERUDITE; FILLING IN; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; LOW TEMPERATURES; MATERIALS SYNTHESIS; MATRIX; NANO SCALE; NANO-DISPERSIONS; NANODOTS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; VOID FILLING;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOCOMPOSITES; SKUTTERUDITES; THERMOELECTRICITY; YTTERBIUM;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 81455135663     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.90     Document Type: Article

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