Enhancement of thermoelectric performance of ball-milled bismuth due to spark-plasma-sintering-induced interface modifications

Advanced Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1033-1037

  Puneet, Pooja ^a   Podila, Ramakrishna ^a,b   Zhu, Song ^a   Skove, Malcolm J ^a   Tritt, Terry M ^a   He, Jian ^a   Rao, Apparao M ^a,c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

bismuth; interface surface modifications; spark plasma sintering; thermoelectric materials

Indexed keywords

BALL-MILLED; DIMENSIONLESS FIGURE OF MERIT; INTERFACE MODIFICATION; POLYCRYSTALLINE; PULSE CURRENTS; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE;

BISMUTH; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84874071625     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201204010     Document Type: Article

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