Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials

Nature

Volumn 451, Issue 7175, 2008, Pages 168-171

  Boukai, Akram I ^a   Bunimovich, Yuri ^a   Tahir Kheli, Jamil ^a   Yu, Jen Kan ^a   Goddard III, William A ^a   Heath, James R ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; SILICON;

BISMUTH; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POWER GENERATION; SILICON; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 38049148246     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06458     Document Type: Article

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