Al-doped zinc oxide nanocomposites with enhanced thermoelectric properties

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4337-4342

  Jood, Priyanka ^a,b   Mehta, Rutvik J ^a   Zhang, Yanliang ^a   Peleckis, Germanas ^b   Wang, Xiaolin ^b   Siegel, Richard W ^a   Borca Tasciuc, Theo ^a   Dou, Shi Xue ^b   Ramanath, Ganpati ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

aluminum doping; heat harvesting; high figure of merit; microwave synthesis; nanostructured thermoelectrics; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

AL-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; BULK-LIKE; DONOR STATE; HEAT-HARVESTING; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH FIGURE OF MERIT; HIGH MELTING POINT; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MICROWAVE SYNTHESIS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOPRECIPITATES; POWER HARVESTING; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRICS; ZNO;

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GRAIN REFINEMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE ENGINEERING; NANOCOMPOSITES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 80054041552     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl202439h     Document Type: Article

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