Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Fleurial, J-P..
Extensive theoretical and experimental studies have resulted in reasonable performance improvements of the state of the art high temperature SiGe thermoelectric materials in the last 5 years.
The key to improving the figure of merit of thermoelectric alloys in the temperature range of 300-1000 C is to reduce the thermal conductivity.
Large samples of Ru(sub 2)Ge(sub 3) were grown from Ge-rich off-stoichiometric melts at a temperature close to 1460 C by a vertical gradient freeze method in graphite and glassy carbon crucibles.
The Ru-Sb phase diagram is not available and very little informations is known about this system.
The antimony-rich iridium antimony phase diagram was investigated by means of differential thermal analysis, microprobe analysis, metallography and X-ray powder diffractions.