Effect of grain sizes and shapes on phonon thermal conductivity of bulk thermoelectric materials

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Xingzhe ^a   Yang, Yumei ^a   Zhu, Linli ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; DIMENSIONLESS VALUES; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; GRAIN SHAPES; GRAIN SIZE; MINIMUM VALUE; PHONON THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; PHONON TRANSPORT MODELS; SMALL GRAIN SIZE; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PHONONS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 79961101389     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3611421     Document Type: Article

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