High electrical power density from PbTe-based quantum-dot superlattice unicouple thermoelectric devices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Harman, T C ^a   Reeder, R E ^a   Walsh, M P ^a   Laforge, B E ^a   Hoyt, C D ^a   Turner, G W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER WIRE; QUANTUM-DOT SUPERLATTICE (QDSL); THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR; THERMOELEMENTS;

COPPER; LEAD; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SUBSTRATES; SUPERLATTICES; TELLURIUM; THERMOELECTRICITY; THICK FILMS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33745207561     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2209707     Document Type: Article

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