Avoided crossing of rattler modes in thermoelectric materials

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 811-815

  Christensen, Mogens ^a,f   Abrahamsen, Asger B ^b   Christensen, Niels B ^b,c,d   Juranyi, Fanni ^c   Andersen, Niels H ^b   Lefmann, Kim ^b,d   Andreasson, Jakob ^e   Bahl, Christian R H ^b   Iversen, Bo B ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; GERMANIUM; GLASS; PHONONS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; AVOIDED CROSSINGS; HOST-GUEST SYSTEM; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; PHONON DISPERSION RELATIONS; PHONON LIFETIMES; PHONON-GLASS ELECTRON-CRYSTALS; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 52549095862     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2273     Document Type: Article

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