THE FEATURES OF SILICIDE THERMOELECTRICS DEVELOPMENT

Abstract. Transition metal silicides are promising materials for thermoelectric ap-plications. All these materials have some common features. These are- complex crystal lattice, anisotropy of transport prop-erties, wide homogeneity range, high effec-tive mass of current carriers. A review of transport properties of these materials has been made in the paper. Special attention is paid to the anisotropy of their properties. Prospects of the increase of their thermoe-lectric figure of merit and possible applica-tions have been discussed also. Introduction. Nowadays thermoelectricity finds ne