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High temperature electrical and thermal transport properties, that is, electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity, of CdO ceramics have been investigated. Because of the good electrical properties and low thermal conductivity, the dimensionless figure-of-merit ZT of the CdO ceramics reaches 0.34 at 1023 K. This value is comparable to the best reported ZT for the n-type oxide ceramic thermoelectric materials and remains as potential to be further improved by porosity controlling or nanostructuring.
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Lü, Q., Wang, S., Li, L. et al. Electrical and thermal transport properties of CdO ceramics. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 57, 1644–1648 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-014-5405-5
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