Thermoelectric properties of molecular nanowires

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 115, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 24418-24428

  Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a   Yang, Ronggui ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CHARGE-TRANSFER SALTS; CONDUCTING POLYMER CHAINS; DOPING CONCENTRATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY; HOLSTEIN MODEL; INTERSITE COUPLING; KUBO FORMULA; LINEAR STACKS; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; MOLECULAR NANOWIRES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PEDOT:PSS; PHONON THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLYMER CHAINS; POWER FACTORS; PROCESSABILITY; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL; RIGOROUS EVALUATION; SELF-ASSEMBLED; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; VAN DER WAALS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

THERMOELECTRICITY;

EID: 83455168968     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp208490q     Document Type: Article

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