Transport and magnetic properties of dilute rare-earth-PbSe alloys

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Jovovic, V ^a   Thiagarajan, S J ^a   West, J ^a   Heremans, J P ^a   Story, T ^b   Golacki, Z ^b   Paszkowicz, W ^b   Osinniy, V ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HALL EFFECT; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEEBECK EFFECT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CURIE-WEISS LAW; DOPING EFFICIENCY; EFFECTIVE MASS; NERNST-ETTINGSHAUSEN EFFECTS;

LEAD ALLOYS;

EID: 34548423201     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2771048     Document Type: Article

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