Thermopower enhancement in lead telluride nanostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Heremans, Joseph P ^a   Thrush, Christopher M ^a   Morelli, Donald T ^a  

^a DELPHI CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MEASUREMENT; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 19744381896     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.115334     Document Type: Article

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