New directions for low-dimensional thermoelectric materials

Advanced Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1043-1053

  Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Tang, Ming Y ^a   Yang, Ronggui ^a   Lee, Hohyun ^a   Wang, Dezhi ^b   Ren, Zhifeng ^b   Fleurial, Jean Pierre ^c   Gogna, Pawan ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 34250689394     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200600527     Document Type: Article

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