C. Candolfi, B. Lenoir, A. Dauscher, V. Da Ros, B. Malaman, C. Bellouard, J. Hejtmánek
{"title":"Galvanomagnetic and Thermoelectric Properties of R3Cu3Sb4 Compounds","authors":"C. Candolfi, B. Lenoir, A. Dauscher, V. Da Ros, B. Malaman, C. Bellouard, J. Hejtmánek","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331231","url":null,"abstract":"Zintl phases recently received a great attention for their thermoelectric potential and interesting results were reported on Yb<sub>14</sub>MnSb<sub>11</sub> compounds [Brown, et al., 2006]. In this paper, we present results obtained with other Zintl phases, Y<sub>1.5</sub>Gd<sub>1.5</sub>Cu<sub>3</sub>Sb<sub>4</sub>, Y<sub>3 </sub>Cu<sub>3</sub>Sb<sub>4</sub> and Gd<sub>3</sub>Cu<sub>3</sub>Sb <sub>4</sub>. They were synthesized in an induction furnace, followed by consequent annealing treatments. The crystallographic structure was checked by X-ray diffraction analysis. Resistivity and thermopower measurements were performed over a large temperature range going from 2 to 550 K. The low temperature thermal conductivity dependence of these materials was also determined between 10 to 300 K. Finally, the thermoelectric potential of these polycrystalline samples is discussed","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116595799","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}
G. Logvinov, L. Bulat, V. Chernysh, I. Korenblit, A. Snarskii
{"title":"Contribution of Professor Anatoli G. Samoilovich to Development of Thermoelectricity: 100 Year Anniversary of his Birth","authors":"G. Logvinov, L. Bulat, V. Chernysh, I. Korenblit, A. Snarskii","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331252","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is devoted to the life and creative work of Professor Anatoly G. Samoilovich who developed the fundamental bases of thermoelectricity and created the scientific school which followed this line of investigation","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123594408","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. Huber, A. Nikolaeva, D. Gitsu, L. Konopko, M. Graf
{"title":"Thermoelectric properties of small diameter Bi nanowires: Evidence for surface charges","authors":"T. Huber, A. Nikolaeva, D. Gitsu, L. Konopko, M. Graf","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331337","url":null,"abstract":"The thermoelectric properties of quasi-one-dimensional systems attract considerable attention. Semimetallic bismuth, aside from being a good thermoelectric material, has charge carriers with very low effective masses, and, as a result, electronic quantum confinement effects induce a semimetal-to-semiconductor transformation (SMSC) for wires with diameters below roughly 50 nm. Theoretical work based on one-dimensional models indicate that fine Bi wires may exhibit superior thermoelectric properties since the density of states at the Fermi level can be tuned to very high values in this case. However, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) studies of Bi surfaces have shown that Bi nanowires support surface states, with high carrier densities of around 5 times 1012 cm-2 and large effective mass, that have not been considered in current models of the SMSC. Our studies of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations for 30-nm diameter Bi nanowires support this model. According to our estimates, the thermopower of this two dimensional sheet of charge should be observable and we carried out an experimental study of the thermopower of arrays of small diameter Bi nanowires to test these conflicting models of fine Bi nanowires","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125932846","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":"Thermoelectric properties of layered perovskite-type Nb-doped SrO(SrTiO3)n (n = 1,2) Ruddlesden-Popper phases","authors":"Kyu Hyoung Lee, Hiromichi Ohta, K. Koumoto","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331285","url":null,"abstract":"Thermoelectric (TE) properties of natural superlattice Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) phases were measured to elucidate their potential as TE materials, and the origin of the TE properties was discussed from the viewpoint of the shape of the TiO6 octahedron. Compared with the cubic perovskite-type phase Nb-doped SrTiO3, efficient reduction of the lattice thermal conductivity was observed by more than 50 % at room temperature and 30 % at 1000 K. There was a decrease in electrical conductivity owing to the randomly distributed insulating SrO layers in polycrystalline RP phases, and it was found that large TE power can be obtained in conjunction with high symmetry TiO6 octahedra","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124206594","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}
H. Chen, X.B. Zhao, Z. M. He, C. Stiewe, E. Muller
{"title":"Influence of pre-annealing and Mn + Al double doping on the microstructure and thermoelectric properties of iron disilicide","authors":"H. Chen, X.B. Zhao, Z. M. He, C. Stiewe, E. Muller","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331230","url":null,"abstract":"Iron disilicide based thermoelectric materials with the designed composition Fe<sub>1-x</sub>Mn<sub>x</sub>Al<sub>y</sub>Si<sub>2-y</sub> (x = 0.06, 0.08; y = 0, 0.02, 0.04) were prepared by rapid solidification and hot pressing (1193K, 100 MPa, 30 minutes). The effects of Mn+Al double doping were investigated. The influence of pre-annealing on the microstructure and the transport properties were also studied. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy show that after pre-annealing at 800degC for only 10 hours, the high temperature phases (alpha-Fe<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>5</sub> and epsiv-FeSi) in the rapidly solidified powders Fe<sub>1-x</sub>Mn<sub>x </sub>Al<sub>y</sub>Si<sub>2-y</sub> have been completely transformed to (beta-FeSi<sub>2</sub> phase for y = 0 and y = 0.02. It is found that the grain growth during hot pressing was suppressed for the pre-annealed samples. For the pressed compacts, the Seebeck coefficient was markedly enhanced by the pre-annealing treatment, while both the electrical conductivity and the thermal conductivity were decreased. Mn+Al double doping improves the electrical conductivity, but deteriorates the Seebeck coefficient and the thermal conductivity. The maximum of the figure of merit (ZT = 0.20) is obtained at 890 K for the sample double doped with y = 0.04 (Fe<sub>0.94</sub>Mn<sub>0.06</sub>Al<sub>0.02</sub>Si<sub>1.98</sub>) that is hot pressed from pre-annealed powders","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130009340","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":"Vacuum Tunnel Diodes for Cooling Devices and Power Generators","authors":"A. Holopkin, V. N. Abrutin","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331339","url":null,"abstract":"In the present work was made the analysis of state of the art of development of solid-state vacuum tunnel diodes (VTDs) for cooling devices as well as for power generators. Quantum-mechanical calculations of cooling power, maximum temperature difference and efficiency for VTDs operating in cooling mode, and maximum electric power and efficiency in dependence on width of a vacuum gap and temperature difference on electrodes for VTDs operating in power generation mode had been made. It is shown that VTDs can be used in cooling devices with efficiency of up to 100% and in high efficiency power generators working from various heat sources in temperature range of 300-600 degC. Different technologies including nanotechnologies of the manufacturing of VTDs with gaps in nm-range and electrodes made from metals, semiconductors and thermoelectric materials were discussed. Also there were formulated the directions of scientific researches for creation of large area VTDs for cooling devices and power generators","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122651606","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}
H. Kaga, Y. Kinemuchi, S. Tanaka, A. Makiya, Z. Kato, K. Uematsu, K. Watari
{"title":"Fabrication of a- and c-axis oriented Zn0.98Al0.02O by a high magnetic field via gelcasting","authors":"H. Kaga, Y. Kinemuchi, S. Tanaka, A. Makiya, Z. Kato, K. Uematsu, K. Watari","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331354","url":null,"abstract":"Highly a- and c-axis oriented Zn0.98Al0.02O ceramics were prepared by a combination of the high magnetic field and gelcasting techniques, and their thermoelectric properties were examined. The gelcasting made it possible to align the particles preferentially along the a- and c-axis within a short exposure time in the high magnetic field. The particle orientation was not degraded and disturbed by the gelation and subsequent processing. The c-axis oriented specimen along the ab-plane showed a higher electrical conductivity compared with the a-axis and non-oriented specimens as a result of high electron mobility. The differences in the Seebeck coefficients between oriented and non-oriented specimens were a very small. This study indicated that applying the magnetic alignment via gelcasting method provides effective and versatile techniques to fabricate the grain oriented materials without hindering the thermoelectric properties","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117147716","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":"Nano-block integration in the misfit layered Co oxides","authors":"I. Terasaki, W. Kobayashi, S. Ishiwata","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331370","url":null,"abstract":"The layered cobalt oxides having the CdI<sub>2</sub>-type hexagonal CoO<sub>2</sub> layer exhibit good thermoelectric properties especially at high temperatures. Above all, the misfit layered Co oxides [A<sub>2</sub>M<sub>n</sub>O<sub>2+n-d</sub>]<sub>y</sub>CoO<sub>2</sub> are of particular interest, in which the CoO<sub>2</sub> layer and the NaCl-type tetragonal block-layer stack alternately along the crystallographic c axis. We prepared single crystals for various kinds of misfit layered Co oxide, and measured the thermoelectric properties to investigate how the block layer affects the electronic states of the CoO<sub>2</sub> layer. We found that the room-temperature thermopower monotonically increases with the misfit ratio y, which we associated with short-ranged spin-density-wave modulated by the interfacial stress between the layers","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"439 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115923975","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}
S. Bobev, John Meyers, Veronika Fritsch, Yuki Yamasaki
{"title":"Synthesis and structural characterization of novel clathrate-II compounds of silicon","authors":"S. Bobev, John Meyers, Veronika Fritsch, Yuki Yamasaki","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331267","url":null,"abstract":"The search for new and better thermoelectric (TE) materials has recently brought to light a somewhat forgotten class of compounds, the clathrates of group 14. The rich phenomenology of these and related cage-like structures has driven the most recent research on their electronic, magnetic, spectral, and conducting properties [Rowe, ed., 1995]. The present studies try to address the issue whether the clathrates are closed-shell compounds (i.e. semiconductor-like) by nature or whether the metallic behavior in some clathrates is simply a failure of the Zintl concept. The underlying principle in our work is based upon the formal oxidation states - a defect-free clathrate framework is electronically balanced since each group 14 element carries 4 valence electrons, which are shared with the 4 neighbors to form 4 covalent bonds. Each guest atom (alkali, alkaline-earth or rare-earth element) is considered merely as an electron donor that transfers its valence electron(s) to the network. Metallic behavior is expected even if the cages are not fully occupied, provided the framework retains the ideal tetrahedral topology. There are two possible ways to balance the extra electrons: 1) to create a vacancy in the framework, or 2) to substitute network atoms with electron-poorer elements, from groups 13 or 12 for example. Such considerations, however, are not always supported by experiments, suggesting that such a clear-cut approach is perhaps overly simplistic","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130994631","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}
S. Okada, A. Sakai, T. Kanno, S. Yotsuhashi, H. Adachi
{"title":"Thermoelectric properties of cobalt rhodium oxides: [Bi2Ba2O4]p(Co,Rh)O2","authors":"S. Okada, A. Sakai, T. Kanno, S. Yotsuhashi, H. Adachi","doi":"10.1109/ICT.2006.331305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT.2006.331305","url":null,"abstract":"We successfully synthesized polycrystalline samples of [Bi<sub>2 </sub>Ba<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>]<sub>p</sub>(Co,Rh)O<sub>2</sub> (BBCRO) with Co and Rh mixed (Co,Rh)O<sub>2</sub> layers by solid-state reaction. The X-ray diffraction pattern and the electron diffraction patterns indicate that the structure of this compound is similar to the structure of [Bi<sub>2</sub>Ba<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>]<sub>p</sub>RhO <sub>2</sub> (BBCO) and [Bi<sub>2</sub>Ba<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>]<sub>p</sub>CoO<sub>2</sub> (BBRO). The thermopower and the resistivity of BBCRO are 102 muV/K and 62 mOmegacm at room temperature, respectively. The temperature dependence of thermopower is similar to that of BBCO and BBRO. The resistivity, however, shows semiconducting behavior, which is different from that of BBCO and BBRO","PeriodicalId":346555,"journal":{"name":"2006 25th International Conference on Thermoelectrics","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126824272","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}