The thermoelectric transport through carbon chains

Carbon

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2786-2791

  Wang, B ^a   Xing, Y X ^a   Wei, Y D ^b   Wan, L H ^b   Wang, J ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Carbon clusters; Thermal conductivity; Transport properties

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CARBON CLUSTERS; CORE VALENCE INTERACTIONS; THERMOELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

CARBON;

EID: 23144441105     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2005.05.023     Document Type: Article

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