Chapter 3 Overview of the thermoelectric properties of quasicrystalline materials and their potential for thermoelectric applications

Semiconductors and Semimetals

Volumn 70, Issue C, 2001, Pages 77-115

  Tritt, Terry M ^a   Pope, A L ^a   Kolis, J W ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; MANGANESE ALLOYS; PALLADIUM ALLOYS; QUASICRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TERNARY ALLOYS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; GLASS-LIKE MATERIALS; INTERMETALLIC MATERIALS; QUASICRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 0010005590     PISSN: 00808784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0080-8784(01)80137-X     Document Type: Article

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