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Thermoelectric performance of textured Bi2Te 3-based sintered materials prepared by spark plasma sintering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Lidong Chen ,
Jun Jiang  and
Xun Shi
Lidong Chen
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai 200050, China
Jun Jiang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai 200050, China
Xun Shi
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai 200050, China
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Abstract

Thermoelectric performance of polycrystalline materials is greatly influenced by their microstructures including grain sizes, grain boundaries, grain orientations in anisotropic compounds, etc. The material microstructures are sensitive to the preparation processes and the starting materials. In the present study, n-type and p-type Bi2Te3-based sintered materials with highly preferred grain orientations have been fabricated through a spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique, by controlling the particle sizes of the starting powder and other sintering process parameters. The obtained textured Bi2Te3-based materials show a high mechanical strength as 80MPa in bending strength, which is 7 to 8 times as that of the melted ingot materials, and a significant anisotropy in thermoelectric transport properties. The optimal figure of merit (ZT) of the sintered materials in the direction perpendicular to the pressing direction (with c-axis preferred orientation) is comparable to that of the zone-melted ingots in the same crystallographic orientation.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 793: Symposium S – Thermoelectric Materials 2003 - Research and Applications , 2003 , S9.3
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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