High thermoelectric figure-of-merit in Kondo insulator nanowires at low temperatures

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1166-1170

  Zhang, Yiqun ^a,b   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^c   Shi, Yi ^a   Ren, Zhifeng ^c   Chen, Gang ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Kondo insulator; nanowire; thermal conductivity; Thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY SCATTERING; CLASSICAL SIZE EFFECT; DYNAMICAL MEAN-FIELD THEORY; ELECTRON PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FIGURE OF MERIT; KONDO INSULATORS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MEAN FREE PATH; NANOWIRE STRUCTURES; THERMOELECTRIC COOLING DEVICES; THERMOELECTRICS;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRONS; KONDO EFFECT; MEAN FIELD THEORY; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 79952587017     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl104090j     Document Type: Article

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