The effect of crystallite size on thermoelectric properties of bulk nanostructured magnesium silicide (Mg 2Si) compounds

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Satyala, Nikhil ^a   Vashaee, Daryoosh ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; INTERFACIAL EFFECTS; MEAN FREE PATH; NANO-STRUCTURING; NANOSTRUCTURED BULK; NANOSTRUCTURED MAGNESIUM; PHONON MEAN FREE PATH; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

CHARGE CARRIERS; PHONONS; SILICIDES; SILICON;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84857285172     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3684615     Document Type: Article

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