Gross violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in a quasi-one-dimensional conductor

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wakeham, Nicholas ^a   Bangura, Alimamy F ^a,b   Xu, Xiaofeng ^a,c   Mercure, Jean Francois ^a   Greenblatt, Martha ^d   Hussey, Nigel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAW; QUASI ONE DIMENSIONAL CONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WIEDEMANN FRANZ LAW; CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDIC ACID;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MOLYBDENUM; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79960601368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1406     Document Type: Article

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