Rare earth-doped materials with enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit
Venkatasubramanian, R., Cook, B., Levin, E., & Harringa, JL. (2016). Rare earth-doped materials with enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit. (U.S. Patent No. 9,437,796). http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9,437,796.PN.&OS=PN/9,437,796&RS=PN/9,437,796
Abstract
A thermoelectric material and a thermoelectric converter using this material. The thermoelectric material has a first component including a semiconductor material and a second component including a rare earth material included in the first component to thereby increase a figure of merit of a composite of the semiconductor material and the rare earth material relative to a figure of merit of the semiconductor material. The thermoelectric converter has a p-type thermoelectric material and a n-type thermoelectric material. At least one of the p-type thermoelectric material and the n-type thermoelectric material includes a rare earth material in at least one of the p-type thermoelectric material or the n-type thermoelectric material.
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