Transport properties and microstructure of indium-added cobalt-antimony-based skutterudites

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1820-1826

  Sesselmann, Andreas ^a   Dasgupta, Titas ^a   Kelm, Klemens ^a   Müller, Eckhard ^a   Perlt, Susanne ^b   Zastrow, Sebastian ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF SURFACE ENGINEERING IOM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microstructure; Scanning electron microscopy; Thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

AS-CAST; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSIS; MATRIX COMPOSITION; PROPERTIES AND MICROSTRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRONS; SECONDARY PHASIS; SINTERED MATERIALS; SKUTTERUDITE STRUCTURES; SYNTHESIS PARAMETERS; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT PARAMETERS;

COBALT; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INDIUM; MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINTERING; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

SKUTTERUDITES;

EID: 81455141743     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.102     Document Type: Article

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