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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 2-LETTERS
Volume 39, Issue 11B, Pages L1127-L1129Publisher
INST PURE APPLIED PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.39.L1127
Keywords
thermoelectric material; thermoelectric property; Seebeck coefficient; oxide; single crystal; layered structure
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An oxide single-crystalline whisker with high thermoelectric proper;ties at temperatures (T) higher than 600 K in air has been discovered. This whisker is assigned to Ca2Co2O5 phase (abbreviated to Co-225 whiskers) and has a layered structure in which Co-O layers of two different kinds alternate in the direction of the c-axis. Seebeck coefficient of the whiskers is higher than 100 muV .K-1 at 100 K and increases with temperature up to 210 muV .K-1. Temperature dependence of electric resistivity shows a semiconducting-like behavior. These results indicate that the electric carriers are transported via hopping conduction. Using thermal conductivity of a Co-225 polycrystalline sample, figure of merit (ZT) of the Co-225 whiskers is estimated 1.2-2.7 at T greater than or equal to 873K. This compound is characterized with regard to low mobility and high density of carriers, which contradicts the conventional materials with high thermoelectric properties.
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