Complex thermoelectric materials

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-114

  Snyder, G Jeffrey ^a   Toberer, Eric S ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOELECTRICITY; WASTE HEAT;

NANOSCALE MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC EFFICIENCY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 38849174818     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2090     Document Type: Review

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