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APPLIED PHYSICS EXPRESS
Volume 1, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
JAPAN SOC APPLIED PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1143/APEX.1.081901
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- SENTAN, Japan Science and Technology Agency
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The half-Heusler compounds NiXSn (X = Ti, Zr, Hf) are regarded as examples of materials possessing excellent thermoelectric properties. We have studied their electronic structures by photoemission spectroscopy excited by soft and hard X-ray synchrotron radiation. Although the overall features of the experimental valence band spectra are well explained by a calculated density of states, in-gap states close to the Fermi energy emerge due to atomic disorder. These electronic states were further confirmed by core-level photoemission and appear to be key for excellent thermoelectric behavior. (C) 2008 The Japan Society of Applied Physics.
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