In resent years, there are various energy problems and environmental problems, such as the lack of fossil fuels and global warming, due to the burning of fossil fuels that lead to the generation of CO
2 and NO
x. Therefore, successive studies have been carried out using thermoelectric power, which can convert thermal energy into electric energy directly using temperature differences. Our goal is the improvement of thermoelectric properties for FeSi
2. FeSi
2 is a cheap and eco-friendly resource. We investigated the decrease in thermal conductivity of FeSi
2 by the addition of oxide.
Fe, Si and Co powders were mixed to form the composition n-type FeSi
2. Oxide was added to the sample and they were mixed. The resulting powder was molded at 153MPa in a 10mmφ die. The molded sample was calcined at 670K for five hours in air atmosphere, calcined at 1463K for two hours in a vacuum, and then heat-treated at 1033K for twelve hours keeping in a vacuum. And thermoelectric properties were measured by DC method, four-probe method and laser flash method.
As for figure of merit, n-type FeSi
2 added with 1wt% of Dy
2O
3 and 3wt% of Ta
2O
5 showed higher value than the unadditive n-type FeSi
2. The highest performance was 0.3×10
−3K
−1 at 614K on the n-type FeSi
2 added with 1wt% of Dy
2O
3. As for dimensionless figure of merit, the highest performance was 0.24 at 864 K on the n-type FeSi
2 added with 3wt% of Ta
2O
5.
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