Chapter 2 Electronic and thermoelectric properties of Half-Heusler alloys

Semiconductors and Semimetals

Volumn 70, Issue C, 2001, Pages 37-75

  Poon, G Joseph ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERROMAGNETISM; HALL MOBILITY; HOLE MOBILITY; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; NARROW BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TEMPERATURE; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORDERING; DIMENSIONLESS FIGURE OF MERIT; ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTY; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING BEHAVIOR; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 77956691187     PISSN: 00808784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0080-8784(01)80136-8     Document Type: Article

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