FILLED SKUTTERUDITE-BASED ALLOY, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF AND THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE FABRICATED USING THE ALLOY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a filled skutterudite alloy, which can be used in a thermoelectric transducer as it is, without requiring the steps of pulverizing and sintering a metal, and to provide the alloy suitable for the thermoelectric transducer manufactured by the method.;SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the filled skutterudite alloy comprises melting a raw material for the alloy comprising a rare earth metal R (wherein R is at least one of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu and Yb), and a transition metal T, (wherein T is at least one of Fe, Co, Ni, Os, Ru, Pd, Pt and Ag) and metallic antimony (Sb), and rapidly solidifying the molten metal with a strip cast method.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO