Enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit of Si1-xGex quantum wires due to spatial confinement of acoustic phonons

Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-18

  Khitun, A ^a   Balandin, A ^b   Wang, K L ^a   Chen, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHONONS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; SILICON GERMANIUM QUANTUM WIRES; SPATIAL CONFINEMENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

EID: 0034228478     PISSN: 13869477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-9477(00)00119-3     Document Type: Article

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