Enhanced thermoelectric performance of (Sb0.75 Bi 0.25)2 Te3 compound from first-principles calculations

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Lv, H Y ^a   Liu, H J ^a   Pan, L ^a   Wen, Y W ^a   Tan, X J ^a   Shi, J ^a,b   Tang, X F ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MATERIALS PHYSICS   (China)

^c Wuhan University of Technology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN THEORY; DOPING ELEMENTS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FULL-POTENTIAL LINEARIZED AUGMENTED PLANE WAVES; OPTIMAL CONCENTRATION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; TRANSPORT COEFFICIENT;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 77951177036     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3372636     Document Type: Article

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