Increasing thermoelectric performance using coherent transport

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Karlstrom O ^a   Linke, H ^a   Karlstrom G ^b   Wacker, A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 80053617917     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.113415     Document Type: Article

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