Interpretation of thermoelectric power behaviour of Zinc nanowire composites: Phonon-scattering mechanism

Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-50

  Choudhary, K K ^a,b   Prasad, D ^a,b   Kaurav, N ^c   Varshney, Dinesh ^b  

^a SHRI VAISHNAV INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Holkar Science College   (India)

Author keywords

A. nanostructures; D. diffusion; D. phonons; D. transport properties

Indexed keywords

A. NANOSTRUCTURES; D. DIFFUSION; D. PHONONS; D. TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FERMI ENERGY; FREE PARAMETERS; LINEAR TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; PHONON DRAG; PHONON-ELECTRON; PHONON-SCATTERING MECHANISMS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAYLEIGH REGIME; RELAXATION TIME APPROXIMATION; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THEORETICAL MODELS; UMKLAPP SCATTERING; ZINC NANOWIRES;

DRAG; ELECTRIC WIRE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMPURITIES; NANOWIRES; SCATTERING; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ZINC;

PHONONS;

EID: 70450222693     PISSN: 00223697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2009.10.011     Document Type: Article

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