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Sb3Zn4, a promising new thermoelectric material. Elaboration and caracterisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

V. Izard ,
M.C. Record ,
J. Haines  and
J.C. Tedenac
V. Izard
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de la Matière Condensée UMR - CNRS 5617 Université Montpellier II -Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc CC003, Pl. E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
M.C. Record
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de la Matière Condensée UMR - CNRS 5617 Université Montpellier II -Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc CC003, Pl. E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
J. Haines
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de la Matière Condensée UMR - CNRS 5617 Université Montpellier II -Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc CC003, Pl. E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
J.C. Tedenac
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de la Matière Condensée UMR - CNRS 5617 Université Montpellier II -Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc CC003, Pl. E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Sb-Zn alloys have interesting thermoelectric properties. Sb3Zn4 is a high performance ptype thermoelectric material appearing as a promising substitute for PbTe due to a higher factor of merit, ZT=1.3 at 673K [1] with the advantage of being Pb free. The preparation of the Sb3Zn4 compound is, however, not without problems. Even if some authors reported measurements on a single-phased material or single crystals [1,2], others described it as multi-phased alloy giving confused explanations for this result based on the existence of metastabilities due to strong interactions in the liquid phase [3,4].

Hence, the knowledge of a very trustful phase diagram of the Sb-Zn sytem is indispensable. As the previous published data on this system were discordant, we have reinvestigated it and from our results we have elaborated and characterised the thermoelectric compound Sb3Zn4.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 691: Symposium G – Thermoelectric Materials 2001--Research and Applications , 2001 , G8.35
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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