Search for New High Temperature Thermoelectric Materials
929424
08/03/1992
- Event
- Content
- 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.
- Pages
- 5
- 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.