High performance thermoelectric Tl9BiTe6 with an extremely low thermal conductivity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 4350-4353

  Wölfing, Bernd ^a,b   Kloc, Christian ^a   Teubner, Jens ^a,b   Bucher, Ernst ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHONONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT;

THALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0142252680     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4350     Document Type: Article

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