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Nickel Substituted Skutterudites: Synthesis and Physical Properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

L. Chapon
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physicochimie de la Matière Condensée. Université Montpellier II, UMR 5617 Place Eugene Bataillon 34095 MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
D. Ravot
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physicochimie de la Matière Condensée. Université Montpellier II, UMR 5617 Place Eugene Bataillon 34095 MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
J. C. Tedenac
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physicochimie de la Matière Condensée. Université Montpellier II, UMR 5617 Place Eugene Bataillon 34095 MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
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Abstract

Starting to CeFe4Sb12 and trying to obtain low gap semiconductors with very low thermal conductivity, we have performed in this compound the substitution of Ni for Fe.This substitution induces a reject of cerium from the structure. In this paper we present synthesis and physical properties of CeyFe4-xNixSb12 in which a relationship is existing between x and y to retain the electronic account giving semiconducting character.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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