Mechanical properties and microstructure of spark plasma sintered nanostructured p-type SiGe thermoelectric alloys

SiGe based thermoelectric (TE) materials have been employed for the past four decades for power generation in radio-isotope thermoelectric generators (RTG). Recently “nanostructuring” has resulted in significantly increasing the figure-of-merit (ZT) of both n and p-type of SiGe and thus nanostructur...

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Main Authors: Sivaiah Bathula, M. Jayasimhadri, Ajay Dhar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-12-01
Series:Materials & Design
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127515302677