Enhancement in thermoelectric power factor of polycrystalline Bi 0.5Sb1.5Te3 by crystallite alignment

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 209, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2131-2134

  Dehkordi, Arash Mehdizadeh ^a   Vashaee, Daryoosh ^a  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

bismuth antimony telluride; polycrystalline materials; thermoelectric power factor; thermoelectric properties

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED SAMPLES; BISMUTH ANTIMONY TELLURIDE; DOMINANT ORIENTATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HOT PRESS; POLYCRYSTALLINE; PRESS PROCESS; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER FACTORS; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

ALIGNMENT; BISMUTH; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINTERING; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLITES;

EID: 84869842358     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201228147     Document Type: Article

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