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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 460, Issue 1-2, Pages 426-431Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2007.05.063
Keywords
thermoelectric property; spark plasma sintering; p-type pseudo-binary (Al(2)Te(3))(x)-(Bi(0.5)Sb(1.5)Te(3))(1-x) alloys
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p-Type pseudo-binary alloys (Al(2)Te(3))(x)-(Bi(0.5)Sb(1.5)Te(3))(1-x) (x = 0 similar to 0.2) were prepared by spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique and their thermoelectric properties were evaluated. Measurements show that the Seebeck coefficient decreases and electrical conductivity increases with Al2Te3 content increasing due to a possible increment of free carrier (holes) concentration and establishment of special conducting mechanism upon adding Al(2)Te(3). Thermal conductivity (kappa) increases with temperature but reduces noticeably over the broad temperature range, such a reduction is directly attributed to the enhancement of phonon scattering resulted from both the precipitation of the second phase AlSb and nearly 12% atomic occupation of element Al in Te1 and Te2 sites in the crystal. The maximum ZT value of 0.86 can be obtained for x = 0.1 at 419 K, which is 0.28 higher than that of Bi(0.5) Sb(1.5)Te(3) under the same fabrication technology. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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