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Refractory Materials For High-Temperature Thermoelectric Energy Conversion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Charles Wood and
David Emin
Charles Wood
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109
David Emin
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185
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Abstract

Two refractory material systems show promise for efficient energy conversion at high temperatures (>1000 K): the rare-earth chalcogenides and the boron-rich borides. The electronic and thermal transport properties of these two systems are compared and discussed.

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