Reducing thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials by using a narrow wire geometry

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Hasegawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Murata, Masayuki ^a   Nakamura, Daiki ^a   Komine, Takashi ^b  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVALENT BONDING; COVALENTLY BONDED; FIGURE OF MERIT; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; LOW MOBILITY; MEAN FREE PATH; MEAN FREE PATH OF PHONONS; NARROW WIRES; SILICON WIRES; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; WIRE DIAMETER; WIRE GEOMETRIES;

BISMUTH; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; PHONONS; SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

WIRE;

EID: 70349651758     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3212982     Document Type: Article

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