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Searching for New Thermoelectrics in Chemically and Structurally Complex Bismuth Chalcogenides

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A solid state chemistry synthetic approach towards identifying new materials with potentially superior thermoelectric properties is presented. Materials with complex compositions and structures also have complex electronic structures which may give rise to high thermoelectric powers and at the same time possess low thermal conductivities. The structures and thermoelectric properties of several new promising compounds with K-Bi-Se, K-Bi-S, Ba-Bi- Te, Cs-Bi-Te, and Rb-Bi-Te are reported.

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Financial support from the Office of Naval Research (contract # N00014-94-1-0935, MGK and CRK and N00014-96-1-0181 for C.U.) is gratefully acknowledged. At NU this work made use of Central Facilities supported by NSF through the Materials Research Center (DMR-96-32472).

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Center for Fundamental Materials Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA

    Duck Young Chung, Lykourgos Iordanidis & Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Tim Hogan, Jon Schindler, Paul Brazis & Carl R. Kannewurf

  3. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Baoxing Chen & Ctirad Uher

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Chung, D.Y., Hogan, T., Schindler, J. et al. Searching for New Thermoelectrics in Chemically and Structurally Complex Bismuth Chalcogenides. MRS Online Proceedings Library 478, 333–344 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-478-333

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