Half-heusler alloys with enhanced figure of merit and methods of making

Half-heusler alloys with enhanced figure of merit and methods of making

Thermoelectric materials and methods of making thermoelectric materials having a nanometer mean grain size less than 1 micron. The method includes combining and arc melting constituent elements of the thermoelectric material to form a liquid alloy of the thermoelectric material and casting the liqui...

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Hauptverfasser: CHEN SHUO, POUDEL BED, REN ZHIFENG, CHEN GANG, JOSHI GIRI, CAYLOR JAMES CHRISTOPHER, YAN XIAO
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
CABLES
CONDUCTORS
ELECTRICITY
INSULATORS
SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING ORDIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
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Zusammenfassung:Thermoelectric materials and methods of making thermoelectric materials having a nanometer mean grain size less than 1 micron. The method includes combining and arc melting constituent elements of the thermoelectric material to form a liquid alloy of the thermoelectric material and casting the liquid alloy of the thermoelectric material to form a solid casting of the thermoelectric material. The method also includes ball milling the solid casting of the thermoelectric material into nanometer mean size particles and sintering the nanometer size particles to form the thermoelectric material having nanometer scale mean grain size.