Skutterudites CoSb(3) with multiple cofillers Ba, La, and Yb were synthesized and very high thermoelectric figure of merit ZT = 1.7 at 850 K was realized. X-ray diffraction of the densified… (More)
Single crystals of Ln(4)MGa(12) (Ln = Dy, Ho, Er; M = Pd,Pt) were synthesized by a flux technique using excess Ga and characterized by single crystal x-ray diffraction. Ln(4)MGa(12) (Ln = Dy, Ho, Er;… (More)
C. H. Booth, E. D. Bauer, A. D. Bianchi, F. Ronning, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Sarrao, J. Y. Cho, J. Y. Chan, C. Capan, and Z. Fisk Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,… (More)
Single crystals of Ln(Cu,Al)12 and Ln(Cu,Ga)12 compounds (Ln = Y, Ce-Nd, Sm, Gd-Ho, and Yb for Al and Ln = Y, Gd-Er, Yb for Ga) have been grown by flux-growth methods and characterized by means of… (More)
Single crystals of SmCu4Ga8 have been grown using Ga flux and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. SmCu4Ga8, isostructural to SmZn11, crystallizes in the hexagonal P6/mmm (No. 191)… (More)
1 Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi 440-746, Republic of Korea 2Materials R&D Center, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics, Yongin,… (More)
Presently, the only commercially available power generating thermoelectric (TE) modules are based on bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) alloys and are limited to a hot side temperature of 250 °C due to the… (More)
1 Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea 2Department of Energy Science, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University,… (More)
The title compound C(20)H(20)O(4)S, is polymorphic. In the tetra-gonal form, the mol-ecule lies on a crystallographic twofold axis, while the monoclinic form has only approximate C(2) mol-ecular… (More)