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Design Concepts for Improved Thermoelectric Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Glen A. Slack
Glen A. Slack*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180–3590
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Abstract

Some new guidelines are given that should be useful in the search for thermoelectric materials that are better than those currently available. In particular, clathrate and crypto-clathrate compounds with filler atoms in their cages offer the ability to substantially lower the lattice thermal conductivity.

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