Within the last decade, novel materials concepts and nanotechnology have resulted in a
great increase of the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials. Despite this, a mass …

Half Heusler alloys are among the most promising materials for thermoelectric generators as
they can be used in a wide temperature range and their starting materials are abundant and …

Fully filled skutterudites RFe 4 Sb 12 (R= Ca, Sr, Ba, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Eu, and Yb) have been
prepared and the high-temperature electrical and thermal transport properties are …

Using a full-relativistic version of the full-potential augmented plane wave plus local orbitals
(FP-APW+ lo) method within the local density approximation (LDA), we have studied the …

Skutterudites are crystals with a cagelike structure that can be augmented with filler atoms
(“rattlers”), usually leading to a reduction in thermal conductivity that can be exploited for …

Thermoelectric (TE) conversion of waste heat into useful electricity demands optimized
thermal and electrical transport in the leg material over a wide temperature range. In order to …

Electrical resistivity, specific-heat, and NMR measurements classify noncentrosymmetric Mo
3 Al 2 C (β-Mn type, space group P 4 1 32) as a strong-coupled superconductor with T c= 9 …

This work evaluates the influence of single, double and triple filling of didymium, Ca and Ba
in Fe4Sb12 as well as in Fe3CoSb12 on the thermoelectric performance. Various filling …

In order to improve the thermoelectric properties via efficient phonon scattering Didymium
(DD), a mixture of Pr and Nd, was used as a new filler in ternary skutterudites (Fe1− xCox) …

By investigations of phase relations in the alloy system Ba-Pt-Si at 900° C we observe the
formation of the compound BaPtSi 3, which crystallizes in the noncentrosymmetric BaNiSn 3 …