Breakdown of phonon glass paradigm in La-and Ce-filled Fe 4Sb12 skutterudites

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 805-810

  Koza, Michael Marek ^a   Johnson, Mark Robert ^a   Viennois, Romain ^b   Mutka, Hannu ^a   Girard, Luc ^c   Ravot, Didier ^c  

^a INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; DYNAMICS; GLASS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; SKUTTERUDITES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

DISORDERED LATTICES; HARMONIC COUPLINGS; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE INDEPENDENTS; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION;

PHONONS;

EID: 52549095939     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2260     Document Type: Article

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