Ternary eutectic growth of nanostructured thermoelectric Ag-Pb-Te materials

Hsin Jay Wu; Wei Jian Foo; Sinn Wen Chen; G. Jeffrey Snyder

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Ternary eutectic growth of nanostructured thermoelectric Ag-Pb-Te materials

Hsin Jay Wu, Wei Jian Foo, Sinn Wen Chen^*, G. Jeffrey Snyder

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Nanostructured Ag-Pb-Te thermoelectric materials were fabricated by unidirectionally solidifying the ternary Ag-Pb-Te eutectic and near-eutectic alloys using the Bridgeman method. Specially, the Bridgman-grown eutectic alloy exhibited a partially aligned lamellar microstructure, which consisted of Ag ₅Te ₃ and Te phases, with additional 200-600 nm size particles of PbTe. The self-assembled interfaces altered the thermal and electronic transport properties in the bulk Ag-Pb-Te eutectic alloy. Presumably due to phonon scattering from the nanoscale microstructure, a low thermal conductivity (κ 0.3 W/mK) was achieved of the eutectic alloy, leading to a zT peak of 0.41 at 400 K.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	023107
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4733661
State	Published - Jul 9 2012

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