Modeling of interface roughness in thermoelectric composite materials

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 23, Issue 33, 2011, Pages

  Gather, F ^a   Heiliger, C ^a   Klar, P J ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING LAYERS; INTERFACE DESIGNS; INTERFACE RESISTANCE; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; INTERFACE STRUCTURES; LAYER THICKNESS; MACROSCOPIC TRANSPORT; MESOSCOPIC DISORDER; MESOSCOPICS; MICROSCOPIC EFFECTS; NETWORK MODELS; REAL STRUCTURE; SUPER-LATTICE STRUCTURES; THERMOELECTRIC COMPOSITE; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

RESIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

COMPOSITE RESINS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 80051917708     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/33/335301     Document Type: Article

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