Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires

Nature

Volumn 451, Issue 7175, 2008, Pages 163-167

  Hochbaum, Allon I ^a   Chen, Renkun ^b   Delgado, Raul Diaz ^a   Liang, Wenjie ^a   Garnett, Erik C ^a   Najarian, Mark ^c   Majumdar, Arun ^b,c,d   Yang, Peidong ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; SILICON;

COMBUSTION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FOSSIL FUEL; POWER GENERATION; SILICON; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 38049143961     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06381     Document Type: Article

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