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The impact of site selectivity and disorder on the thermoelectric properties of Yb[subscript 21]Mn[s
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Thermoelectric properties of niobium in the temperature range 300 deg - 1200 deg k.
Resistivity, thermal diffusivity and Seebeck coefficient of niobium from 300 to 1200 degrees K
The time and temperature behavior of the thermoelectric properties of 78 a/o Si-22 a/o Ge alloy
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Effect of Ga and P dopants on the thermoelectric properties of n-type SiGe
The purpose of this study was to hot-press improved n-type Si80Ge20/GaP samples directly (without any heat treatment) and to confirm that a Ga/P ratio less than one increases the solubility of P and, hence, improves the power factor and Z. One of the three samples (Ga/P = 0.43) had an improvement in Z of about 20 percent between 400 and 1000 C over that for standard SiGe. This demonstrates that improved samples can be pressed directly and that a Ga/P ratio less than one is necessary. The other two samples (Ga/P = 0.33 and 0.50) had Z's equal to or less than that of standard SiGe but had a lower hot-pressing temperature than the improved sample.
Preparation and Thermoelectric Properties of some Arsenopyrite Phases Based on RuSb(sub 2-2x)Te(sub 2x) and RuSb(sub 2-2x)Se(sub 2x) Solid Solutions
The synthesis and some properties of several arsenopyrite phases based on RuSb(sub 2-2x)Te(sub 2x) and RuSb(sub 2-2x)Se(sub 2x) solid solutions is reported.
Preparation and Thermoelectric Properties of p and n-type CoSb(sub 3)
For the first time, large single crystals of the compound CoSb sub3 were grown from antimony rich melts by the Bridgman gradient freeze technique.
Preparation and Thermoelectric Properties of p- and n-type IrSb(sub 3)
IrSb(sub 3) belongs to a large family of compounds with the skutterudite crystal structure (CoAs(sub 3)).
thermoelectric Properties of the Semiconducting Chevrel Phase Mo(2)Re(4)Se(8)
We have prepared and measured the electrical resistivity, Seebeck coefficient, and thermal conductivity of the Chevrel material Mo(2)Re(4)Se(8) in the 300-1000K temperature range.
Mechanochemical Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of Magnesium Silicide and Related Alloys
The present invention provides a method of making a substantially phase pure compound including a cation and an anion. The compound is made by mixing in a ball-milling device a first amount of the anion with a first amount of the cation that is less than the stoichiometric amount of the cation, so that substantially all of the first amount of the cation is consumed. The compound is further made by mixing in a ball-milling device a second amount of the cation that is less than the stoichiometric amount of the cation with the mixture remaining in the device. The mixing is continued until substantially all of the second amount of the cation and any unreacted portion of anion X are consumed to afford the substantially phase pure compound.
Mechanochemical synthesis and high temperature thermoelectric properties of calcium-doped lanthanum telluride La 3−x Ca x Te 4
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The impact of site selectivity and disorder on the thermoelectric properties of Yb 21 Mn 4 Sb 18 solid solutions: Yb 21 Mn 4− x Cd x Sb 18 and Yb 21− y Ca y Mn 4 Sb 18
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Impact of Lu-Substitution in Yb 14– x Lu x ZnSb 11 : Thermoelectric Properties and Oxidation Studies
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A thermoelectric materials database auto-generated from the scientific literature using ChemDataExtractor
An auto-generated thermoelectric-materials database is presented, containing 22,805 data records, automatically generated from the scientific literature, spanning 10,641 unique extracted chemical names. Each record contains a chemical entity and one of the seminal thermoelectric properties: thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT; thermal conductivity, κ; Seebeck coefficient, S; electrical conductivity, σ; power factor, PF; each linked to their corresponding recorded temperature, T. The database was auto-generated using the automatic sentence-parsing capabilities of the chemistry-aware, natural language processing toolkit, ChemDataExtractor 2.0, adapted for application in the thermoelectric-materials domain, following a rule-based sentence-simplification step. Data were mined from the text of 60,843 scientific papers that were sourced from three scientific publishers: Elsevier, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Springer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first automatically-generated database of thermoelectric materials and their properties from existing literature. The database was evaluated to have a precision of 82.25% and has been made publicly available to facilitate the application of data science in the thermoelectric-materials domain, for analysis, design, and prediction.
Cost-Performance Trade-off in thermoelectric air conditioning system with graded and constant material properties
Thermoelectric (TE) air cooling is a solid-state technology that has the potential to replace conventional vapor compression-based air conditioning. In this paper, we present a detailed system-level modeling for thermoelectric air conditioning system with position-dependent (graded) and constant material properties. Strategies for design optimization of the system are provided in terms of cost-performance trade-off. Realistic convection heat transfer at both sides of the system are taken into account in our modeling. Here, the effects of convection heat transfer coefficients, air flowrate, and thermoelectric material properties are investigated with varying key parameters such as TE leg thickness, module fill factor, and input current. Both constant material properties and graded properties are considered for the TE materials, and they are compared in terms of the degree of cooling, coefficient of performance (COP), and power consumption. For graded materials, we employ one-dimensional finite element methods to solve the coupled electrical and thermal current equations with arbitrary profile of material properties varying with position along the TE legs. We find that graded materials can enhance the degree of cooling, but only at the expense of COP, compared to the case of constant property materials. With constant material properties of ZT = 1 and relatively low electric current, the power consumption of TE coolers can be lower than those of conventional air conditioners at an equivalent cooling capacity. Considering additional advantages such as demand-flexible operation, low noise, and high scalability, thermoelectric cooling could be a competitive technology for future air conditioning applications.
Advanced thermoelectric materials with enhanced crystal lattice structure and methods of preparation
New skutterudite phases including Ru.sub.0.5 Pd.sub.0.5 Sb.sub.3, RuSb.sub.2 Te, and FeSb.sub.2 Te, have been prepared having desirable thermoelectric properties. In addition, a novel thermoelectric device has been prepared using skutterudite phase Fe.sub.0.5 Ni.sub.0.5 Sb.sub.3. The skutterudite-type crystal lattice structure of these semiconductor compounds and their enhanced thermoelectric properties results in semiconductor materials which may be used in the fabrication of thermoelectric elements to substantially improve the efficiency of the resulting thermoelectric device. Semiconductor materials having the desired skutterudite-type crystal lattice structure may be prepared in accordance with the present invention by using powder metallurgy techniques. Measurements of electrical and thermal transport properties of selected semiconductor materials prepared in accordance with the present invention, demonstrated high Hall mobilities and good Seebeck coefficients. These materials have low thermal conductivity and relatively low electrical resistivity, and are good candidates for low temperature thermoelectric applications.
Thermoelectric power generation in the core of a nuclear reactor
Thermoelectric energy converters offer a promising solution to generate electrical power using heat in the nuclear reactor core. Despite significant improvements in thermoelectric efficiency of nanostructured materials, the performance of these advanced materials has yet to be demonstrated in the harsh radiation environment of a reactor core. Herein, we demonstrate a thermoelectric generator (TEG) made from nanostructured bulk half-Heusler (HH) materials generating stable electrical power density > 1140 W/m 2 after 30 days in the MIT Nuclear Research Reactor under an unprecedented fast-neutron (>1 MeV) fluence of 1.5 × 10 20 n/cm 2 . Despite an initial degradation due to irradiation damage when operating under relatively low temperatures, our TEG showed a 20-fold increase in power output when operating under high temperature due to in-situ annealing and resulting thermoelectric property recovery. First-principles modeling indicates that a chemically disordered metallic phase was formed under irradiation at lower temperatures, resulting in a drastic degradation in thermoelectric properties, while at sufficiently high temperatures the system returned to the initial chemically ordered HH phase and the thermoelectric properties recovered. Transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction demonstrated that the chemically disordered phase was formed upon ion irradiation, confirming the prediction from first-principles simulations. Furthermore, the results suggest that with proper control over the TEG operating temperatures, the nanostructured bulk TEGs could produce stable electrical power and operate indefinitely in the core of a nuclear reactor.