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Improving thermoelectric performance of TiNiSn by mixing MnNiSb in the half-Heusler structure

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Berry,  T.
Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Fecher,  G. H.
Gerhard Fecher, Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Kreiner,  G.
Guido Kreiner, Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Auffermann,  G.
Gudrun Auffermann, Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Schnelle,  W.
Walter Schnelle, Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Felser,  C.
Claudia Felser, Inorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Berry, T., Ouardi, S., Fecher, G. H., Balke, B., Kreiner, G., Auffermann, G., et al. (2017). Improving thermoelectric performance of TiNiSn by mixing MnNiSb in the half-Heusler structure. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(2), 1543-1550. doi:10.1039/c6cp06859f.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002C-80EB-9
Abstract
The thermoelectric properties of the n-type semiconductor TiNiSn were optimized by partial substitution with metallic MnNiSb in the half Heusler structure. Herein, we study the transport properties and intrinsic phase separation in the Ti1-xMnxNiSn1-xSbx system. The alloys were prepared by arc-melting and annealed at temperatures obtained from differential thermal analysis and differential scanning calorimetry results. The phases were characterized using powder X-ray diffraction patterns, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and differential scanning calorimetry. After annealing, the majority phase was TiNiSn with some Ni-rich sites, and the minority phases were primarily Ti6Sn5, Sn and MnSn 2. The Ni-rich sites were caused by Frenkel defects; this led to metal-like behavior in the semiconductor specimens at low temperature. For x <= 0.05 the samples showed an activated conduction, whereas for x > 0.05 they showed metallic character. The figure of merit for x = 0.05 was increased by 61% (zT = 0.45) in comparison with the pure TiNiSn.