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Effect of sintering temperature on thermoelectric properties of CdO ceramics

Show Author's Information Xinran ZHANG,  Huiling LI,  Jianglong WANG( )
Hebei Key Lab of Optic-electronic Information and Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
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thermoelectric (TE), solid-state reaction, sintering temperature, CdO ceramics
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ZHANG X, LI H, WANG J. Effect of sintering temperature on thermoelectric properties of CdO ceramics. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2015, 4(3): 226-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40145-015-0153-1
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The effect of sintering temperature on thermoelectric properties of CdO ceramics was investigated by solid-state reaction method within the temperature range of 700–1000 ℃. With the increase of sintering temperature, both the grain size and the carrier concentration of these samples increased, while the Seebeck coefficient decreased. The highest dimensionless figure of merit ZT, 0.34, was obtained at 1023 K for the sample sintered at 800 ℃, suggesting the potential application of CdO ceramics in thermoelectric (TE) devices.


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Effect of sintering temperature on thermoelectric properties of CdO ceramics

Show Author's information Xinran ZHANG, Huiling LI, Jianglong WANG( )
Hebei Key Lab of Optic-electronic Information and Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China

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The effect of sintering temperature on thermoelectric properties of CdO ceramics was investigated by solid-state reaction method within the temperature range of 700–1000 ℃. With the increase of sintering temperature, both the grain size and the carrier concentration of these samples increased, while the Seebeck coefficient decreased. The highest dimensionless figure of merit ZT, 0.34, was obtained at 1023 K for the sample sintered at 800 ℃, suggesting the potential application of CdO ceramics in thermoelectric (TE) devices.

Keywords: thermoelectric (TE), solid-state reaction, sintering temperature, CdO ceramics

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Received: 01 February 2015
Revised: 30 April 2015
Accepted: 03 May 2015
Published: 07 July 2015
Issue date: September 2015

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China (Grant No. A2014201176) and the Science and Technology Research Projects of Colleges and Universities in Hebei Province, China (Grant No. ZD2014018).

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