Thermoelectric materials can be used for solid state power generation and heating/cooling
applications. The figure of merit of thermoelectric materials, ZT, which determines their …

The silicide family of thermoelectrics includes more than 15 compounds, among them are
semimetals and semiconductors with band gaps ranging from 0.1 to 2.3 eV. The silicides …

Intermetallic phases exhibit a vast structural diversity in which electron count is known to be
one controlling factor. However, chemical bonding theory has yet to establish how electron …

TiB 2 based materials have attracted extensive attention due to its considerable hardness
and elastic modulus, excellent wear/corrosion resistance as well as exceptional …

Thin films of CrSi2 of various thicknesses, deposited on the Si (111) surface using
magnetron sputtering, have been examined through a combination of electron spectroscopy …

The rational design of materials requires an understanding of the relationships between
structure and properties. In some fields, advances in computational tools and modeling have …

SiGe is one of the most widely used thermoelectric materials for radioisotope thermoelectric
generator applications for harnessing waste-heat at high temperatures. In the present study …

Higher manganese silicides (HMSs) represented as MnSiγ are generically Nowotny
chimney–ladder (NCL) compounds that obey the 14-electron rule due to which their stability …

The study added different proportions of Cr to the Al–Si–Mg eutectic alloy and applied heat
treatment to the quaternary alloy. So, the Al–Si–Mg eutectic alloy's microstructure and …

P-type nanostructured bulk Si 0.8 Ge 0.2 and Si 0.8 Ge 0.2 composites with CrSi 2 nano-
crystallite inclusions were synthesized via sintering approach. The composite structure …