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 2108