Phonon softening and metallization of a narrow-gap semiconductor by thermal disorder

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4725-4730

  Delaire, Olivier ^a   Marty, Karol ^a   Stone, Matthew B ^a   Kent, Paul R C ^a   Lucas, Matthew S ^b   Abernathy, Douglas L ^a   Mandrus, David ^a   Sales, Brian C ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron phonon coupling; Metal insulator transition; Thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VIBRATION;

EID: 79953194134     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014869108     Document Type: Article

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