Low thermal conductivity short-period superlattice thermionic devices

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4153-4158

  O'Dwyer, M F ^a   Humphrey, T E ^b   Lewis, R A ^a   Zhang, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; SUPERLATTICES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMIONIC EMISSION;

COOLING CURRENT; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES;

ELECTRON DEVICES;

EID: 33748881453     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/39/19/006     Document Type: Article

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