• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.25-25
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Crystal Growth Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.516-518
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• 1996

Bimuth telluride type thermoelectrics are prepared by AC current applied got pressing method. It is possible to minimize the defects arising from the vaporization of Te, because of the very short processing time. The optimum conditions for the got pressing of 95mol% $Bi_2Te_3$-5mol%$Bi_2Se_3$ themoelectrics are sintered at $400^{\circ}C$, for 2min. with 1500 kgf/$cm^2$ from the particle size of 125 to 250 $\mu$m rang of powder. the resulted Z value (figure of merit) was 2.2$\times$10-3deg-1.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1995.11a
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• pp.107-107
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• 1995

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.396-402
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• 1994

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.73-73
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• 1999

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1993.05a
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• pp.23-23
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• 1993

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 1993.07a
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• pp.93-94
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• 1993

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.05a
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• pp.111-111
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• 1996

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.56-65
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• 2012

Functional materials are often exposed to high temperatures and inherent temperature gradients. These temperature gradients act as thermodynamic driving forces for the diffusion of mobile components. The detailed consequences of thermodiffusion depend on the boundary conditions of the non-isothermal sample: Once the boundaries of the sample are inert and closed for exchange of the mobile components, thermodiffusion leads to their pile-up in the stationary state (the so called Soret effect). Once the system is open for an exchange of the mobile component, chemical diffusion adds to the Soret effect, and stationary non-zero component fluxes are additionally observed in the stationary state. In this review, the essential aspects of thermodiffusion and Soret effect in inorganic functional materials are briefly summarized and our current practical knowledge is reviewed. Major examples include nonstoichiometric binary compounds (oxides and other chalcogenides) and ternary solid solutions. The potential influence of the Soret effect on the long term stability of high temperature thermoelectrics is briefly discussed. Typical Soret coefficients for nonstoichiometric compounds are found to be of the order of (d${\delta}$/dT) ${\approx}$ 1%/K.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2008

Thermoelectric properties of calcium cobalt layer structure oxide system, $Ca_3Co_2O_6$ and $Ca_3Co_4O_9$ were investigated at the temperature range of 300 to 1000K for the application of thermoelectric generation. In the composition, the Ca site was partially substituted with Bi, Sr, La, K and the Co site was partially substituted with Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn. The thermoelectric properties of Bi substituted $Ca_3Co_4O_9$. $Ca_{2.7}Bi_{0.3}Co_4O_9$ for electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient and power factor were $85.4({\Omega}$cm)^{-l}, $176.2{\mu}V/K$ and $265.2{\mu}W/K^m$, respectively. The unit thermoelectric couple was fabricated with the p-type of $Ca_{2.7}Bi_{0.3}Co_4O_9$ and n-type ($Zn_{0.98}Al_{0.02}$)O thermoelectrics whose figure-of-merit(Z) were $0.87{\times}10^{-4}/K$ and $0.41{\times}10^4/K$, respectively. The generated thermoelectric power was about 30mV at the temperature difference of 120K in the unit thermoelectric couple.