ZT enhancement in solution-grown Sb(2-x)BixTe 3 nanoplatelets

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 4283-4291

  Scheele, Marcus ^a   Oeschler, Niels ^b   Veremchuk, Igor ^b   Reinsberg, Klaus Georg ^a   Kreuziger, Anna Marlena ^a   Kornowski, Andreas ^a   Broekaert, José ^a   Klinke, Christian ^a   Weller, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

Author keywords

colloids; nanostructured solids; phonon glass electron crystal; thermal conductivity; thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSTRUCTURED SOLIDS; THERMOELECTRICS;

CHELATION; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GLASS; LIGANDS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHONONS; SINTERING; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 77955533266     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1008963     Document Type: Article

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