Solubility study of Yb in n-type skutterudites YbxCo4Sb12 and their enhanced thermoelectric properties

The solubility of Yb in Yb[subscript x]Co[subscript 4]Sb[subscript 12 was reported to be 0.19 in bulk skutterudites made by melting and slow cooling method. Surprisingly we increased x close to 0.5 by a special sample preparation method: ball mill and hot press. We show that a higher Yb concentratio...

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Main Authors: Yang, J. (Author), Hao, Qing (Contributor), Wang, H. (Author), Lan, Y. C. (Author), He, Q. Y. (Author), Minnich, Austin Jerome (Contributor), Wang, D. Z. (Author), Harriman, J. A. (Author), Varki, V. M. (Author), Dresselhaus, Mildred (Contributor), Chen, Gang (Contributor), Ren, Z. F. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Dresselhaus, M. S. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2010-01-28T18:01:59Z.
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