| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Research Abstract |
New silicon clathrates, thermoelectric semiconductors, were developed by partial substitution of europium for barium on guest sites. The europium guest was found to occupy preferentially the crystallographic position 2a site in the voids in the crystal structure. The europium substitution had a significant influence on the electronic structure, resulting in an enhancement of the Seebeck coefficient due to an increased election effective mass. Further, the europium substitution caused a marked reduction in the lattice thermal conductivity due to an enhanced “rattling” scattering (resonant scattering) of phonons because the Einstein temperature of the guest atoms on the 2a site was reduced.
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