Nanocomposites to enhance zt in thermoelectrics

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1044, Issue , 2008, Pages 29-41

  Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^a,b   Chen, Gang ^a   Ren, Zhifeng ^c   Fleurial, Jean Pierre ^d   Gogna, Pawan ^d   Tang, Ming Y ^a   Vashaee, Daryoosh ^a   Lee, Hohyun ^a   Wang, Xiaowei ^c   Joshi, Giri ^c   Zhu, Gaohua ^c   Wang, Dezhi ^c   Blair, Richard ^e   Bux, Sabah ^f   Kaner, Richard ^f  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK SAMPLES; FIGURE OF MERIT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY; MATERIALS SYNTHESIS; NANO-STRUCTURED; POWER FACTOR; POWER-GENERATION DEVICES; PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS; SCALE-UP; SELF-ASSEMBLED; THERMOELECTRICS;

BALL MILLING; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COMPLEXATION; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; GERMANIUM; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICON; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

EID: 54749106672     PISSN: 02729172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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