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The polycrystalline samples of BaSi2, SrSi2, and LaSi were prepared by spark plasma sintering (SPS). The electrical resistivity (rho) and Seebeck coefficient (S) were measured above room temperature. The S of BaSi2 was negative and the absolute values were rather high (-669 muVK-1 at 337 K). The S of SrSi2 was positive and the absolute values were lower (118 muVK-1 at 332 K) than those of BaSi2. For...
We report thermoelectric characterization of Bi2-xSbxTe3 (x = 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5) synthesized by a solvothermal method using DMF as solvent. For Bi2Te3, the size of the edge and thickness of the hexagonal nanoplatelets are 200-250 nm and 20-25 nm, respectively. Bi2Te3 nanosheets appear to grow epitaxially from the surface of the Te tubes, which forms in the first step and acts as the template for the...
Bulk nanostructured (Bi,Sb)2Te3 compounds and GeTe based amorphous/nanocrystal composites have been successfully fabricated by the combined hydrothermal/hot-pressing and quenching/annealing methods, respectively. The (Bi,Sb)2Te3 nanopowders synthesized by hydrothermal method exhibit a hollow-like structure. After hot-pressing, the nanoscale grains varying from tens to hundreds of nanometers were found...
The SrTiO3 and Y-doped SrTiO3 polycrystalline sintered bodies were synthesized by the polymerized complex (PC) process and the subsequent hot pressing at 1473 K for 1 h or at 1673 K for 2 h in Ar atmosphere. The X-ray diffraction patterns of the SrTiO3 and Sr0.9Y0.1TiO3 samples synthesized by the PC process and hot pressing at 1473 K showed that these samples were mostly composed of the SrTiO3 single...
To study the effect of double filling of the skutterudite iron antimonides on the thermal conductivity, we have synthesized dense samples of Ca1-xLaxFe4Sb12 (0 les times les 1) and Ca0.3La0.6Fe4-yCoySb12 (y = 1, 1.5) by the spark plasma sintering technique. Electron-probe microanalysis revealed that the double-filled samples with x = 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 consist of three phases of micrometer scale;...
Hf1-xZrxTe5, which is expected to have high thermoelectric performance at low temperature, is investigated on polycrystals with high density. in order to examine the possibility of large enhancement of the figure of merit at low temperature, polycrystalline samples of Hf1-xZrxTe5 (x=0.0, 0.5 and 1.0) are systhesized by hot-press sintering to make high density above ~90%. Resultant polycrystals show...
Alkaline metal (AM) atoms filled CoSb3 skutterudites are synthesized by melting method and sintered by spark plasma sintering. The maximal filling fraction or filling fraction limit (FFL) of AM (AM=Li, Na, K, Cs) in CoSb3 are estimated experimentally and show good agreement with our previous calculations based on density functional method. The effect of thermodynamics properties on FFL, crystallographic...
Nanostructuring is one of the effective approaches to lower the thermal conductivity of materials. Nanostructured skutterudite-related compounds CoSb3, Fe0.5Ni0.5Sb3, Fe0.25Ni0.25Co0.5Sb3 and Te-doped CoSb3 were synthesized by a solvothermal route. The bulk materials were prepared by hot pressing or spark plasma sintering from the solvothermally synthesized nanopowders. The thermal conductivity values...
The write/erase cyclability of Co-rich Pt/Co disks was studied, along with factors limiting the cyclability. Annealing experiments suggested that a decrease in CNR results from degradation of the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in a Pt/Co film heated by an erasing laser beam. The main mechanism of degradation is atomic intermixing at the interface in Pt/Co multilayers. In the case of a Pt/Co film...
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