Recent advances on thermoelectric materials

Frontiers of Physics in China

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-279

  Zheng, Jin Cheng ^a,b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge spin orbital degeneracy; Energy materials; Nanostructure; Phonon glass electron crystal; Strongly correlated system; Thermoelectric

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049119912     PISSN: 16733487     EISSN: 16733606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-008-0028-9     Document Type: Review

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