{"title":"The effect of TiB/sub 2/ addition on the thermoelectric properties of B/sub 4/C ceramics","authors":"K. Cai, C. Nan","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979885","url":null,"abstract":"B/sub 4/C-TiB/sub 2/ composites were prepared via hot-pressing. The thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient of samples containing 0, 12, 16, 20 vol% TiB/sub 2/ are measured from room temperature up to 1200 K. The results show that the electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity increase with TiB/sub 2/ content and that the Seebeck coefficient decreases with TiB/sub 2/ content. The value of dimensionless figure of merit of 12% TiB/sub 2/ sample is always higher than that of 0% TiB/sub 2/ sample in the whole temperature range, and that of 16% TiB/sub 2/ samples is also higher than that of 0% TiB/sub 2/ sample as T<700 K and similar as T>700K, while that of 20% TiB/sub 2/ samples is lower than that of 0% TiB/sub 2/ sample due to its higher thermal conductivities and lower Seebeck coefficients than those of 0% TiB/sub 2/ sample. These results indicate that it is possible to improve the thermoelectric properties of pure materials by selecting an optimum combination of different materials.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128599759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparation and thermoelectric properties of Li-doped Ca/sub 0.05/Ni/sub 0.95/O","authors":"J.B. Wu, J. Nan, X.S. Zhou, S.L. Chen, C. Nan","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979867","url":null,"abstract":"Thermoelectric properties of Li-doped NiO and Li-doped Ca/sub 0.05/Ni/sub 0.95/O, with Ni substituted by Ca in order to alter the lattice structure, were investigated in high temperature region. The oxide powder was prepared by a soft chemical approach, and then was sintered in form of compressed pallets. The chemical processing greatly shortens the overall preparation time period. Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity of the oxide samples were similar to those of the samples prepared via traditional solid-state approach. The novel chemical processing is effective to prepare the oxide ceramics.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121212403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Lertsatitthanakorn, J. Hirunlabh, J. Khedari, H. Scherrer
{"title":"Cooling performance of free convected thermoelectric air conditioner","authors":"C. Lertsatitthanakorn, J. Hirunlabh, J. Khedari, H. Scherrer","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979928","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a lab-scale investigation of the cooling performance of a free convected thermoelectric (TE) air conditioner is reported. Two types of heat exchangers were considered: a free convected vertical, rectangular fin heat exchanger at the cold side; and a force convected skive fin heat exchanger at the hot side. A computer model developed earlier for predicting the cooling performance of free convected TE air conditioner was used in the design phase. An experimental set-up was built to study the cooling performance under various operating conditions. Seven TE modules (Tianjin Lantian model TEC1-12708) were used. The volume of the chamber was about 0.024 m/sup 3/. The effects of varying the supply voltage and airflow rate of a skive fin heat exchanger were analyzed.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121608902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transport and magnetic properties of Co/sub 1-x/Ni/sub x/Sb/sub 3/ with x less than 0.01","authors":"J. Dyck, W. Chen, J. Yang, G. Meisner, C. Uher","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979823","url":null,"abstract":"The filled skutterudite compounds based on the binary skutterudite CoSb/sub 3/ are currently being investigated for their potential application as thermoelectric materials. One route to optimization of these compounds is by doping on the Co site. An obvious candidate for an n-type dopant is Ni, because it has one more electron in its valence shell than Co. We present electrical resistivity, thermopower, Hall effect and magnetic susceptibility measurements on polycrystalline, n-type Co/sub 1-x/Ni/sub x/Sb/sub 3/ with x less than 0.01. A model which takes into account conduction of electrons residing in the conduction band in addition to hopping conduction within an impurity \"band\" formed by the Ni atoms is consistent with the observed behavior. The doping dependence suggests Ni acts as an electron donor thus taking the tetravalent state Ni/sup 4+/ and assuming the d/sup 6/ electronic configuration. The measured magnetic susceptibility suggests a paramagnetic state implying that Ni may carry a moment at least at low temperatures. We attempt to tie together the transport and magnetic susceptibility data to provide a consistent picture of the overall behavior.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125657594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
X.F. Tang, L.D. Chen, T. Goto, J. Dyck, W. Chen, C. Uher, T. Hirai, R. Yuan
{"title":"Synthesis and high temperature thermoelectric properties of n-type Ba/sub y/Ni/sub x/Co/sub 4-x/Sb/sub 12/","authors":"X.F. Tang, L.D. Chen, T. Goto, J. Dyck, W. Chen, C. Uher, T. Hirai, R. Yuan","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979831","url":null,"abstract":"Single-phase filled skutterudite compounds Ba/sub y/N/sub x/Co/sub 4-x/Sb/sub 12/ (x=0-0.1, y=0-0.4) were synthesized by a two-step solid state reaction. Effects of Ba filling fraction and Ni content on the thermoelectric properties of n-type Ba/sub y/Ni/sub x/Co/sub 4-x/Sb/sub 12/ were investigated. Thermal conductivity decreased with increasing Ba filling fraction and temperature. When barium filling fraction (y) was fixed at 0.3, the thermal conductivity decreased with increasing Ni content, and reached a minimum value at about x=0.05. Electron concentration and electrical conductivity increased with increasing Ba filling fraction and Ni content. Seebeck coefficient increased with increasing temperature, and decreased with increasing Ba filling fraction and Ni content. A maximum ZT value of 1.2 was obtained at about 800 K for Ba/sub 0.3/Ni/sub 0.05/Co/sub 3.95/Sb/sub 12/.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134043303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Nagira, M. Ito, S. Katsuyama, Kazuhiko Majma, H. Nagai
{"title":"Effect of Na-site partial substitutions on the thermoelectric properties of layered oxide Na/sub x/Co/sub 2/O/sub 4/","authors":"T. Nagira, M. Ito, S. Katsuyama, Kazuhiko Majma, H. Nagai","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979849","url":null,"abstract":"Polycrystalline samples of (Na/sub 1-y/M/sub y/)/sub x/Co/sub 2/O/sub 4/ (M=K Sr, Y, Nd, Sm and Yb; y=0.01/spl sim/0.35) were prepared by using a solid state reaction method. The effects of the Na-site partial substitutions on the thermoelectric properties of Na/sub x/Co/sub 2/O/sub 4/ from room temperature to 1073 K were investigated. For the Sr-substitution sample, the thermoelectric power and the resistivity increased, and the electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity decreased compared to the non-substitution sample. These effects mean the reduction of the carrier density. As a result of that, for the Sr-substitution sample, the figure of merit was slightly improved. On the other hand, for rare-earth-metal-substitution samples, the anomalous substitution effects were observed. That is, in spite of the fact that the electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity decreased, the thermoelectric power decreased and the electrical resistivity increased. For all substitution samples except for Y-substitution, the lattice contribution to the thermal conductivity decreased because of the phonon scattering resulting in the decrease in the thermal conductivity.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"66 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133168051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonequilibrium electron and phonon transport in heterostructures for energy conversion","authors":"T. Zeng, Gang Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979899","url":null,"abstract":"We establish the first unified model dealing with the transport of electron and phonon in double heterojunction structures with the coexistence of three nonequilibrium processes: (1) nonequilibrium among electrons, (2) nonequilibrium among phonons, and (3) nonequilibrium between electrons and phonons. Using this model, we investigate the energy conversion efficiency based on concurrent thermoelectric and thermionic effects on electrons and size effects on electrons and phonons. It is found that heterostructures can have an equivalent figure of merit higher than the corresponding bulk materials.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121299886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cui Jiaolin, Zhao Xin-bing, Zhou Bang-chang, Xu Xuebo, Bao Mingdong
{"title":"Preparation and interface analyses of a P-type segmented FeSi/sub 2//Bi/sub 2/Te/sub 3/ material","authors":"Cui Jiaolin, Zhao Xin-bing, Zhou Bang-chang, Xu Xuebo, Bao Mingdong","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979890","url":null,"abstract":"P-type segmented FeSi/sub 2//Bi/sub 2/Te/sub 3/ thermoelectric material has been prepared by the dip coating procedure using Sn/sub 95/Ag/sub 5/ as the bridge material. An apparent Seebeck coefficient of about 225 /spl mu/V/K is obtained, which is significantly higher than those of both homogeneous materials /spl beta/-FeSi/sub 2/ and Bi/sub 2/Te/sub 3/ in the same temperature range. The maximum power output of the segmented FeSi/sub 2//Bi/sub 2/Te/sub 3/ is approximately 2.5 times that of the monolithic material /spl beta/-FeSi/sub 2/ in the same temperature range. This implies that not only does the segmented material benefit from Bi/sub 2/Te/sub 3/ at the low temperature side, but it also makes fully use of the characteristics of /spl beta/-FeSi/sub 2/ at high temperature. SEM and EDAX analyses revealed that interdiffusions do to some extent exist in all interfaces. A eutectic mixture could easily be formed since its melting point is lower than the annealing temperature, which trigger the exfoliation in the interface between Sn/sub 95/Ag/sub 5/ and Bi/sub 2/Te/sub 3/ under the stress due to the thermal expansion coefficient mismatch of both materials. Although the maximum power output of the material with a Ni layer sandwiched between Sn/sub 95/Ag/sub 5/ and Bi/sub 2/Te/sub 3/ is a little lower than those of the materials without Ni layer, the thermal stability can be significantly improved.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"417 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115925813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis of n-type PbTe by powder metallurgy","authors":"Y. Gelbstein, Z. Dashevsky, M.P. Dariel","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979843","url":null,"abstract":"Homogeneous and graded PbTe samples doped with PbI/sub 2/ were prepared using powder metallurgical techniques. The samples were examined by SEM, EDS, XRD, and their transport properties were determined. The preparation procedures were optimized with respect to powder particle size, compaction pressure, and sintering parameters. Dopant concentration profiles for optimal power factor in the 50 to 500/spl deg/C temperature range were calculated on the basis of the experimentally determined transport measurements results.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128485976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Ito, H. Nagai, T. Tada, S. Katsuyama, K. Majima
{"title":"Effects of oxide dispersion on thermoelectric properties of /spl beta/-FeSi/sub 2/","authors":"M. Ito, H. Nagai, T. Tada, S. Katsuyama, K. Majima","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2001.979873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2001.979873","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of various oxide additions to hot-pressed /spl beta/-FeSi/sub 2/ on the thermoelectric properties were investigated. The oxides, such as TiO, SiO/sub 2/ or Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/, were dispersed in the /spl beta/ phase matrix by mechanical grinding. In the case of the sample with addition of an electric conductive oxide, TiO, the thermal conductivity. was reduced by TiO addition over the entire temperature range. On the other hand, the electrical resistivity of the sample with TiO addition was slightly lower than that of the sample without addition. From these results, the maximum figure of merit was obtained for the sample with 2 mass% TiO, which was about two times as large as that of the sample without addition. In the case of the sample with addition of an insulating oxide, SiO/sub 2/ or Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/, the addition of these insulating oxides significantly decreased the thermal conductivity. The. electrical resistivity increased when these oxides, especially Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/, were added, in contrast to the result in the case of the TiO addition. On the other hand, the thermoelectric power in the low temperature range was significantly enhanced by the addition of these oxides, particularly by the addition of 2 mass% Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/. From these results, the addition of these insulating oxides increased the figure of merit.","PeriodicalId":203601,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings ICT2001. 20 International Conference on Thermoelectrics (Cat. No.01TH8589)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126217587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}