Mechanism for thermoelectric figure-of-merit enhancement in regimented quantum dot superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 415-417

  Balandin, Alexander A ^a   Lazarenkova, Olga L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; SEEBECK EFFECT; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

FIGURE-OF-MERIT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0037455109     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1539905     Document Type: Article

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