Category: Transient Plane Source
Author(s): Duraisamy Sivaprahasam, Manjusha Battabyal, Raghavan Gopalan, Subramaniam Harish
Keywords: Nanocrystalline, Spark Plasma Sintering, Tetrahedrite, Thermal Conductivity, Thermoelectric, Transient plane source (TPS), Zinc
Abstract: Tetrahedrite is a naturally occurring mineral, possessing a high figure of merit (ZT), used to evaluate the efficiency of thermoelectric (TE) materials. Phase stability and thermoelectric properties of single phase nanocrystalline Zn-doped tetrahedrite was studied. Thermal conductivity was directly measured using a transient plane source technique. It was observed that Zn, and other transition metals, reduced the thermal conductivity significantly due to increased phonon scattering.
Reference: Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2016), 667: 323-328
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.01.094