Nanostructures and defects in nonequilibrium-synthesized filled skutterudite CeFe4Sb12

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1842-1847

  Zhou, Juan ^a   Jie, Qing ^a   Wu, Lijun ^a   Dimitrov, Ivo ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Shi, Xun ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Defects; Thermoelectricity; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC STRAIN; COHERENT INTERFACE; DEFECT FORMATION; DIFFERENT SIZES; FILLED-SKUTTERUDITE; MATRIX; NANOPRECIPITATES; NON EQUILIBRIUM; ORTHORHOMBIC STRUCTURES; P-TYPE; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING METHOD; SPHERICAL SHAPE; STRAIN FIELDS; SURROUNDING MATRIX; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON;

MELT SPINNING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SKUTTERUDITES; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; SUPERLATTICES; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DEFECTS;

EID: 81455159250     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.79     Document Type: Article

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