Effect of antimony doping on the thermoelectric properties of the transition metal pentatellurides (Hf/sub 1-X/Zr/sub x/Te/sub 5-Y/Sb/sub Y/)

Eighteenth International Conference on Thermoelectrics. Proceedings, ICT'99 (Cat. No.99TH8407) Pub Date : 1999-08-29 DOI:10.1109/ICT.1999.843464

R. Littleton, T. Tritt, J. Kolis, M. C. Bryan, D. Ketchum, J. J. McGee

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Abstract

The electrical resistivity, /spl rho/, and the thermopower, /spl alpha/, of the transition-metal pentatelluride system Hf/sub 1-x/Zr/sub x/Te/sub 5-Y/Sb/sub Y/ have been measured over a broad range of temperature, 10 K

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锑掺杂对过渡金属五碲化物(Hf/sub - 1-X/Zr/sub - x/Te/sub - 5-Y/Sb/sub -Y/)热电性能的影响

测量了过渡金属五碲化物体系Hf/sub - 1-x/Zr/sub -x/ Te/sub - 5-Y/Sb/sub -Y/在10 K

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