Enhancement of thermoelectric figure of merit in bismuth nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Zhou, G ^a   Li, L ^a   Li, G H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF STATE; FERMI ENERGY LEVELS; PHONON THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; POWER FACTORS; SUB-BANDS; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BISMUTH; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; PHONONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 77955133488     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3463473     Document Type: Article

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