Disordered zinc in Zn4Sb3 with phonon-glass and electron-crystal thermoelectric properties

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 458-463

  Snyder, G Jeffrey ^a,b   Christensen, Mogens ^c   Nishibori, Eiji ^d   Caillat, Thierry ^b   Iversen, Bo Brummerstedt ^c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON SCATTERING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ELECTRON CRYSTALS; SEEBACK COEFFICIENTS; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

ZINC ALLOYS;

EID: 3042789579     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1154     Document Type: Article

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