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Colossal Seebeck coefficient in strongly correlated semiconductor FeSb2A reader has brought to my attention the following remarkable paper:
Aparently due to strong corellation and d- character of the bands, FeSb2 exhibits at 12 K perhaps the largest electrical power factor ever reported:
The lattice thermal conductivity is still quite large so ZT ~ 0.005 at 12 K, but with a Seebeck of -45,000 µV/K the material is bound to be of interest.
Off hand I'm not aware of any other example of such large Seebeck values in anything which might be remotely described as a decent electrical conductor. The full manuscricpt can be downloaded for free from the journal's website using this link:
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