Electronic structure of the thermoelectric materials Bi2 Te3 and Sb2 Te3 from first-principles calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Guofeng ^a,b   Cagin, Tahir ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

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EID: 34547577749     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.075201     Document Type: Article

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