Maximum cooling temperature and uniform efficiency criterion for inhomogeneous thermoelectric materials

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Bian, Zhixi ^a   Wang, Hongyun ^a   Zhou, Qiaoer ^a   Shakouri, Ali ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

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EID: 34347386456     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.245208     Document Type: Article

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