Identifying the specific nanostructures responsible for the high thermoelectric performance of (Bi,Sb)2Te3 nanocomposites

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3283-3289

  Xie, Wenjie ^a,b   He, Jian ^b   Kang, Hye Jung ^b   Tang, Xinfeng ^a   Zhu, Song ^b   Laver, Mark ^c   Wang, Shanyu ^a   Copley, John R D ^d   Brown, Craig M ^d   Zhang, Qingjie ^a   Tritt, Terry M ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

(Bi,Sb)2Te3; inelastic neutron scattering; multiscale nanostructures; small angle neutron scattering; thermoelectric material

Indexed keywords

(BI,SB)2TE3; INELASTIC NEUTRONS; MULTISCALES; SMALL ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INELASTIC NEUTRON SCATTERING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRONS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 77956445610     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl100804a     Document Type: Article

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