Electronic thermal conductivity and thermoelectric figure of merit of n-type PbTe/Pb1−xEuxTe quantum wells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Sur, I ^a   Casian, A ^a   Balandin, A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOLDOVA   (Moldova)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM; LEAD; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DISPERSION; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHONON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 1442263752     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.035306     Document Type: Article

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