Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
Volume 28, Issue 12, Pages 8771-8776Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10854-017-6603-5
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51525205, 51421091, 51402254, 51332005]
- Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hebei Province of China [E2014203150]
- Key Basic Research Project of Hebei Province of China [14961013D]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The filling behavior of barium into voids of CoSb3 under high pressure was investigated with the first principles calculations, revealing that the filling fraction limit can be further increased under high pressure. Inspired by the theoretical investigation result, we synthesized Bafilled CoSb3 with a high pressure synthesis method. The products show the skutterudite structure of Im (3) over bar symmetry. The maximal filling fraction of Ba in CoSb3 is increased to 0.51. The power factor is significantly enhanced meanwhile the lattice thermal conductivity is dramatically suppressed after Ba filling, and ZT of Ba0.51Co4Sb12 reaches a value of ca. 1.0 at 883 K. Compared with the traditional solid state reaction method for fabricating elemental- filled skutterudites, the high pressure synthesis method shows the advantages of fast process, broadening fillable elements, and increasing the filling fraction.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available