On Landauer versus Boltzmann and full band versus effective mass evaluation of thermoelectric transport coefficients

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Jeong, Changwook ^a   Kim, Raseong ^a   Luisier, Mathieu ^a   Datta, Supriyo ^a   Lundstrom, Mark ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; BULK MATERIALS; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; EFFECTIVE MASS; ELECTRONIC BAND-STRUCTURE; FULL BAND; LANDAUER; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; SEMICLASSICAL TECHNIQUES; THERMOELECTRIC PARAMETERS; THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 75749116799     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3291120     Document Type: Article

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