2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of lanthanoid sulfides for ceramics condenser with large-capacity
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16360369
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Metal making engineering
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| Research Institution | Muroran Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
HIRAI Shinji Muroran Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (10208796)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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| Keywords | Rare earth sulfide / Dielectric material / Termoelectric material / Phase transformation / Thermopower / Electrical resistivity / Thermal conductivity / Figure of merit |
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| Research Abstract |
Rare-earth sesquisulfides R_2S_3 (R : La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Yb, and Lu) were synthesized by the reaction of rare-earth oxides with CS_2 gas. With the exception of Lu, synthetic powders devoid of intermediate products such as an oxysulfide were obtained. A monosulfide was obtained in the case of Eu. The thermoelectric properties were improved by the optimization of the ratios of rare-earth metal to sulfur. For a γ-GdS_x compact, the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT increased with a decrease in the sulfur content and reached a value of 0.16 at x = 1.43. Moreover, the thermoelectric properties were measured for the γ-LaS_<1.5> compact whose crystal phase was controlled by the addition of Ti to a synthetic powder. The transformation from the tetragonal β-phase to the y-phase is affected by the oxygen impurities. The β-phase is in fact an oxysulfide La_<10>S_<14>(O_<1-x>S_x) with 0【less than or equal】x【less than or equal】1. While the presence of oxygen stabilizes the tetragonal form over a wide temperature range, the β-phase with a low oxygen content undergoes further transformation to the y-phase at around 1600 K. We observe that the Ti additive promotes the transformation from La_<10>S_<14>O to the γ-phase. In the γ-phase with 8 wt. % Ti, ZT increases with the temperature and reaches a value of 0.21 at 1000 K. The Ti additive is suitable for improving the high-temperature thermoelectric properties because it promotes the formation of the y-phase with high thermoelectric performance. Moreover, the β-phase with Ti is a candidate material for high-temperature thermoelectric conversion. The magnitude of the Seebeck coefficient increases with the temperature, while the electrical resistivity decreases. Consequently, ZT increases abruptly from 0.013 at 300 K to 0.18 at 1000 K.
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