Structural principles and amorphouslike thermal conductivity of Na-doped Si clathrates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 114-117

  Tse, J S ^a   Uehara, K ^a   Rousseau, R ^a   Ker, A ^a   Ratcliffe, C I ^a   White, M A ^b   MacKay, G ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SODIUM; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CLATHRATES; STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGY; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0034227965     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.114     Document Type: Article

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