Tight-binding modeling of thermoelectric properties of bismuth telluride

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-3

  Lee, Seungwon ^a   Von Allmen, Paul ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH TELLURIDE; BOLTZMANN'S TRANSPORT EQUATION; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR INTERACTIONS; THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BISMUTH; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 30744434349     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2162863     Document Type: Article

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