Improving Thermoelectric Performance of Pulverized p-Type Bi2Te3 via a Grain Boundary Engineering Approach

Science of Advanced Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 596-601

  Su, Zhe ^a,b   He, Jian ^a   Ji, Xiaohua ^a,c   Gothard, Nicolas ^a,d   Tritt, Terry M ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BioDefense Corporation   (United States)

^c Quallion LLC   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi2Te3 alloys; Thermal conductivity; Thermoelectrics; Thermopower

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755207621     PISSN: 19472935     EISSN: 19472943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/sam.2011.1188     Document Type: Article

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