Improvement of Thermoelectric Performance for Sb-Doped SnO2 Ceramics Material by Addition of Cu as Sintering Additive
Improvement of Thermoelectric Performance for Sb-Doped SnO2 Ceramics Material by Addition of Cu as Sintering Additive
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DOI:
10.1007/s11664-014-3227-x
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发表时间:
2014-05
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Toshiki Tsubota;Shogo Kobayashi;N. Murakami;T. Ohno
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作者:
Toshiki Tsubota;Shogo Kobayashi;N. Murakami;T. Ohno
The thermoelectric properties, such as the Seebeck coefficient value,S, electrical conductivity,σ, and thermal conductivity,κ, of Sb- and Cu-doped SnO2, that is, (Sn1−x−yCuxSby)O2, were investigated in detail. The addition of a small amount of CuO significantly improved the relative density of the SnO2ceramics. However, the relative density slightly decreased with the excessive addition of CuO (more thanx= 0.03). The addition of Sb2O5should cause an increase in the number of charge carriers, resulting in an increasedσvalue, and the addition of both CuO and Sb2O5caused an increase inσand |S| at high temperature. The improvement of the sintering performance caused the enhancement of the thermoelectric performance. As the temperature region measured in this study (293–1073 K), the maximumZTvalue was 0.29 at 1073 K for (Sn0.985Cu0.005Sb0.01)O2.