Thermal conductivity of half-Heusler compounds from first-principles calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Shiomi, Junichiro ^a,b   Esfarjani, Keivan ^b   Chen, Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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EID: 80053609184     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.104302     Document Type: Article

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