Multifilled nanocrystalline p-type didymium - Skutterudites with ZT > 1.2

Author(s)
Gerda Rogl, Andrij Grytsiv, Peter Franz Rogl, Ernst Bauer, Michael Kerber, Michael Zehetbauer, Stephan Puchegger
Abstract

The influence of double, triple and multi-filling of didymium, Ca, Ba, Sr and Yb in Fe3CoSb12 on the thermoelectric performance was investigated. Ball-milling followed by hot pressing was used for sample preparation to gain dense and nanostructured samples. Almost all of the samples studied in this work have a ZT higher than 1, some even reach ZT > 1.2 at 700 K or at 800 K and an average ZT up to 1.0 in the temperature range from 300 K to 800 K. Thermal expansion, hardness and the elastic moduli were investigated exemplarily for two alloys with ZT > 1.2. With these results we can claim to have very promising p-type skutterudites for thermoelectric devices.

Organisation(s)
Department of Physical Chemistry, Physics of Nanostructured Materials, Dynamics of Condensed Systems
External organisation(s)
Technische Universität Wien
Journal
Intermetallics
Volume
18
Pages
2435-2444
No. of pages
10
ISSN
0966-9795
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intermet.2010.08.041
Publication date
2010
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
104017 Physical chemistry, 103018 Materials physics
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/multifilled-nanocrystalline-ptype-didymium--skutterudites-with-zt--12(f9d46cb2-b4e9-433f-bcb8-c3cd95ac9984).html