Advances in Thermoelectric Materials ISince its inception in 1966, the series of numbered volumes known as Semiconductors and Semimetals has distinguished itself through the careful selection of well-known authors, editors, and contributors. The Willardson and Beer series, as it is widely known, has succeeded in producing numerous landmark volumes and chapters. Not only did many of these volumes make an impact at the time of their publication, but they continue to be well-cited years after their original release. Recently, Professor Eicke R. Weber of the University of California at Berkeley joined as a co-editor of the series. Professor Weber, a well-known expert in the field of semiconductor materials, will further contribute to continuing the series' tradition of publishing timely, highly relevant, and long-impacting volumes. Some of the recent volumes, such as Hydrogen in Semiconductors, Imperfections in III/V Materials, Epitaxial Microstructures, High-Speed Heterostructure Devices, Oxygen in Silicon, and others promise that this tradition will be maintained and even expanded. Reflecting the truly interdisciplinary nature of the field that the series covers, the volumes in Semiconductors and Semimetals have been and will continue to be of great interest to physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and device engineers in modern industry. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Overview of Measurement and Characterization Techniques for Thermoelectric Materials | 25 |
Chapter 3 The Role of SolidState Chemistry in the Discovery of New Thermoelectric Materials | 51 |
Chapter 4 An Overview of Recent Developments for BiSb Alloys | 101 |
Prospective Novel Thermoelectrics | 139 |
Common terms and phrases
antimony atoms band structure bandgap behavior Bi—Sb alloys binary skutterudites bismuth bismuth telluride bonding Borshchevsky cages Caillat calculated carrier concentration carrier density CeFe Chem clathrate compounds clathrates conduction band Conference on Thermoelectrics contribution CoSb crystal structure CsBi decreases doping Dudkin effective mass electrical conductivity electrical resistivity electronic properties energy Fermi figure of merit filled skutterudites filler Fleurial frequency germanium Goldsmid heat holes impurity increases International Conference ions IrSb Kanatzidis LaFe lattice thermal conductivity low temperatures magnetic moment magnetic susceptibility measurements metal Mo¨ssbauer Morelli n-type Nolas Optical parameters Peltier phase phonon phosphide Phys pnicogen polycrystalline power factor Proc rattling room temperature sample scattering Seebeck coefficient Semiconductors semimetal Silicon Singh single crystals skutterudite structure solid solutions stoichiometry technique telluride temperature dependence thermocouple thermoelectric materials thermopower transport properties Tritt Uher unit cell valence band values vibrations voids voltage Volume