Increased electrical conductivity in fine-grained (Zr,Hf)NiSn based thermoelectric materials with nanoscale precipitates

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  Xie, Han Hui ^a   Yu, Cui ^a   Zhu, Tie Jun ^a,b   Fu, Chen Guang ^a   Jeffrey Snyder, G ^c   Zhao, Xin Bing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SITE DEFECT; BOUNDARY SCATTERING; COARSE-GRAINED; COMPOSITION CHANGES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HALF-HEUSLER ALLOYS; IN-SITU; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; NANO SCALE; SUBMICRON GRAINS; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAIN REFINEMENT; HAFNIUM; POINT DEFECTS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY; ZIRCONIUM;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84863337248     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4730436     Document Type: Article

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