Thermoelectric properties of p -type LiZnSb: Assessment of ab initio calculations

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Toberer, Eric S ^a   May, Andrew F ^a   Scanlon, Cidney J ^a   Snyder, G Jeffery ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB-INITIO CALCULATIONS; MATERIAL TRANSPORTS; OPTIMAL DOPING; P TYPES; ROOM TEMPERATURES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERITS; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CALCULATIONS;

EID: 63749116246     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3091267     Document Type: Article

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