High temperature thermoelectric efficiency in Ba8 Ga16 Ge30

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Toberer, Eric S ^a   Christensen, M ^b   Iversen, B B ^b   Snyder, G Jeffrey ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 40949121380     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075203     Document Type: Article

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