Modeling of thermal conductivity in high performing thermoelectric materials
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2017Publisher
Institute of Physics PublishingSource
Journal of Physics: Conference SeriesVolume
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The enhanced TE-performance in Mg2Si-Mg2Sn based pseudo-binaries is presented, which is attributed to low thermal conductivity. Sn-Si alloying, reduces the lattice thermal conductivity due to mass fluctuation. Furthermore, miscibility gap in the Sn-Si substitution causes the formation of composites, with Si-rich and Sn-rich phases, which span from mm to nm scale, and these nano-inclusions reduce further lattice thermal conductivity.