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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2003
Hans-josef Sterzel, Dannstadt-Schauernheim, DE;
Klaus Kühling, Mutterstadt, DE;
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, East Lansing, MI (US);
Duck-young Chung, East Lansing, MI (US);
Hans-Josef Sterzel, Dannstadt-Schauernheim, DE;
Klaus Kühling, Mutterstadt, DE;
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, East Lansing, MI (US);
Duck-Young Chung, East Lansing, MI (US);
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
A thermoelectrically active p- or n-conductive semiconductor material is constituted by a ternary compound of the general formula (I)(PbGe)Te  (I)with x value from 0.16 to 0.5,wherein 0 to 10% by weight of the ternary compound may be replaced by other metals or metal compounds, wherein the semiconductor material has a Seebeck coefficient of at least ±200 μV/K at a temperature of 25° C.