Large enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit in a ridged quantum well

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 40, 2009, Pages

  Tavkhelidze, Avto ^a  

^a TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; BULK MATERIALS; CHARGE DEPLETION; ELECTRON WAVE FUNCTIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PERIODIC RIDGES; QUANTUM FEATURES; QUANTUM STATE; QUANTUM WELL; QUANTUM WELL LAYERS; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; TRANSPORT COEFFICIENT;

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; CHEMICALS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

METAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DENSITY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRON; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WAVEFORM; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70349664623     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/40/405401     Document Type: Article

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