Materials transactions
Volume 48 August 2007 Number 8
Special Issues on Thermoelectric Conversion Materials
PREFACE
Kaoru Kimura, Ken‒ichi Takagi, Takeshi Koyanagi, Michitaka Ohtaki,
Hidero Unuma, Shigeru Katsuyama, Kouji Akai, Masatoshi Takeda 2072
Synthesis of Ca3Co4O9 Ceramics by Citric Acid Complex and Hydrothermal Hot‒Pressing Processes and Investigation of Its Thermoelectric Properties
Shigeru Katsuyama, Yuta Takiguchi and Mikio Ito 2073
Thermoelectric Properties of Half‒Heusler Type LaPdBi and GdPdBi Takeyuki Sekimoto, Ken Kurosaki, Hiroaki Muta and Shinsuke Yamanaka 2079
Fabrication and Thermoelectric Properties of Ag9TlTeX (X=5.0∼6.0) Ken Kurosaki, Keita Goto, Hiroaki Muta and Shinsuke Yamanaka 2083
Thermoelectric Properties of Combustion Synthesized and Spark Plasma Sintered Sr1‒xRxTiO3 (R = Y, La, Sm, Gd, Dy, 0 < x ≤ 0.1)
Lihua Zhang, Tsuyoshi Tosho, Noriyuki Okinaka and Tomohiro Akiyama 2088
Thermoelectric Properties and Phase Transition of (ZnxCu2‒x)V2O7 Kotaro Sotojima, Ryosuke O. Suzuki, Koji Amezawa and Yoichi Tomii 2094
Improvement of Thermoelectric Properties of β‒FeSi2 by the Addition of Ta2O5
Kentarou Morikawa, Hiroyuki Chikauchi, Hiroyuki Mizoguchi and Sunao Sugihara
2100
Thermoelectric Properties of the Layered Cobaltite Ca3Co4O9 Epitaxial Films Fabricated by Topotactic Ion‒Exchange Method
Kenji Sugiura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kenji Nomura, Tomohiro Saito, Yuichi Ikuhara, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono and Kunihito Koumoto
2104
First‒Principles Study of Electronic Structure and Thermoelectric Properties for Guest Substituted Clathrate Compounds
Ba6R2Au6Ge40 (R=Eu or Yb)
Kenji Koga, Hiroaki Anno, Koji Akai, Mitsuru Matsuura and Kakuei Matsubara
