Thermoelectric properties of the hot-pressed Bi2(Te0.85Se0.15)3 alloy with addition of BN powders

Metals and Materials International - Tập 6 - Trang 571-575 - 2000
Sun Kyung Lee1, Jun Soo Lee1, Dow-Bin Hyun2, Tae Sung Oh1
1Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Hong Ik University, Mapo-ku, Seoul, Korea
2Center for Materials Processing, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seongbuk-ku, Seoul, Korea

Tóm tắt

Thermoelectric properties of the hot-pressed Bi2(Te0.85Se0.15)3 alloy were investigated with the addition of BN powders as phonon scattering centers. The Seebeck coefficient and electrical resistivity of the alloy increased as the volume fraction of BN increased. Although the thermal conductivity of the alloy decreased as the volume fraction of BN increased due to the reduction of Kel, the lattice thermal conductivity varied little. The figure-of-merit of the alloys, 1.6×l0-3/K without the addition of BN, decreased as the volume fraction of BN increased because the increment of the electrical resistivity was much larger than the decrement of the thermal conductivity due to grain refinement.

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