Search for New High Temperature Thermoelectric Materials 929424
Although important efforts are actually devoted to improve Si-Ge materials, their thermoelectric energy conversion efficiency remains relatively low and the adimensional ZT value does not exceed 1. Higher values can be obtained by investigating new materials. A search for new high temperature thermoelectric materials identified a certain number of compounds between transition metals and bismuth, antimony and germanium as potential candidates. Results of the preliminary synthesis of samples by a variety of techniques (Bridgman, mechanical alloying…) are presented as well as some electrical measurements. Some compounds showed interesting properties and need to be investigated in more details.
Citation: Caillat, T., Borshchevsky, A., and Fleurial, J., "Search for New High Temperature Thermoelectric Materials," SAE Technical Paper 929424, 1992, https://doi.org/10.4271/929424. Download Citation
Author(s):
Thierry Caillat, Alex Borshchevsky, Jean-Pierre Fleurial
Affiliated:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pages: 5
Event:
27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1992)
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Energy conservation
Metals
Alloys
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