Advancing the reliability of thermoelectric materials: A case study of silicides through statistics

This work presents a statistical study of mechanical properties of a pair of silicide thermoelectric (TE) materials, p-type higher manganese silicide (HMS), and bismuth-doped n-type magnesium silicide stannide. The fracture strength of each material was examined with a statistically significant number of samples to obtain useful information for subsequent engineering work. Furthermore, to lend credibility to our measurements, we applied an ASTM …