화학공학소재연구정보센터
Current Applied Physics, Vol.10, No.3, 866-870, 2010
Influence of Sr substitution on thermoelectric properties of La1-xSrxFeO3 ceramics
Perovskite La1-xSrxFeO3 (0.10 <= x <= 0.20) ceramics have been synthesized by the conventional solid-state reaction technique. Their electrical resistivity, Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity have been measured. It has been found that the increase of Sr content reduces significantly both the electrical resistivity and the Seebeck coefficient, but slightly increases the high-temperature thermal conductivity. An adiabatic hopping conduction mechanism of small polaron is suggested from the analysis of the temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity. Seebeck coefficients decrease with increasing temperature, and saturate at temperature above 573 K. The saturated value of Seebeck coefficient decreases with increasing of Sr contents, from 200 mu V/K for x = 0.10 to 100 mu V/K for x = 0.20. All samples exhibit lower thermal conductivity with values around 2.6 W/m K. The highest dimensionless figure of merit is 0.031 at temperature 973 K in La0.88Sr0.12FeO3. (C) 2009 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.