Structural order-disorder transitions and phonon conductivity of partially filled skutterudites

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 26, 2010, Pages

  Kim, Hyoungchul ^a   Kaviany, Massoud ^a   Thomas, John C ^a   Van Der Ven, Anton ^a   Uher, Ctirad ^a   Huang, Baoling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; ACOUSTIC PHONONS; FILLED SKUTTERUDITES; INTRINSIC VOIDS; STABLE CONFIGURATION; STRUCTURAL ORDERS; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; TWO PHASE MIXTURES;

BARIUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

PHONONS;

EID: 78650464682     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.265901     Document Type: Article

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