Theoretical studies on the thermopower of semiconductors and low-band-gap crystalline polymers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Gao, Xing ^a   Uehara, Kentaro ^a   Klug, Dennis D ^a   Patchkovskii, S ^a   Tse, John S ^a,b   Tritt, Terry M ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 29744452153     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.125202     Document Type: Article

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