Pulsed laser deposition and thermoelectric properties of In-and Yb-doped CoSb3 skutterudite thin films

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1836-1841

  Sarath Kumar, S R ^a   Alyamani, A ^b   Graff, J W ^c   Tritt, T M ^c   Alshareef, H N ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Thermoelectric; Thermoelectricity; Thin film

Indexed keywords

ARGON AMBIENT; BULK SAMPLES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FILM CONDUCTIVITY; GRAIN BOUNDARY SCATTERING; HEATING CYCLES; POWER FACTORS; PROCESS WINDOW; SECONDARY PHASIS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; OPTIMIZATION; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SKUTTERUDITES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMOELECTRICITY; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION; YTTERBIUM;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 80655127772     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.198     Document Type: Article

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