Optical properties offilled skutterudites
- 15 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 60 (16), 11321-11328
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.60.11321
Abstract
Infrared reflectance spectroscopy measurements were made on four members of the family of filled skutterudites, with Th, Ce, and U. In progressing from to U the system undergoes a metal-insulator transition. It is shown that, although the filling atom induces such dramatic changes in the transport properties of the system, it has only a small effect on lattice dynamics. We discuss this property of the compounds in the context of their possible thermoelectric applications.
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