Understanding nanostructures in thermoelectric materials: An electron microscopy study of AgPb18SbSe20 crystals

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5630-5635

  Lioutas, Christos B ^a   Frangis, Nikolaos ^a   Todorov, Iliya ^b   Chung, Duck Young ^c   Kanatzidis, Mercouri G ^b,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LEVELS; COHERENT INTERFACE; ELECTRON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MATRIX; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANO-STRUCTURING; PHASE A; REAL-SPACE; STRUCTURAL MODELS; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; ELECTRONS; MODEL STRUCTURES; NANOCRYSTALS; PHASE INTERFACES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 77957778192     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm102016j     Document Type: Article

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