Valence band study of thermoelectric Zintl-phase SrZn2Sb 2 and YbZn2Sb2: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Flage Larsen, Espen ^a   Diplas, Spyros ^a,b   Prytz, Øystein ^a   Toberer, Eric S ^c   May, Andrew F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

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EID: 77955734618     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.205204     Document Type: Article

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