Journal of Inorganic Materials

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New Thermoelectric Materials with Half-Heusler Structure

HUANG Xiang-Yang1; XU Zheng1; CHEN Li-Dong2   

  1. 1. School of Materials Science & Engineering; Tongji University; Shanghai 200092; China; 2. State key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; CAS; Shanghai 200050; China
  • Received:2002-11-08 Revised:2002-12-10 Published:2004-01-20 Online:2004-01-20

Abstract: This paper presented the introduction of new thermoelectric materials with half-Heusler structure. The crystal structure and recent progress were demonstrated. The effects of doping and isoelectronic alloying on thermoelectric properties were discussed. Some problems that should be paid great attentions to were given.

Key words: thermoelectric materials, half-Heusler, dimensionless figure of merit, doping

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