A new class of doped nanobulk high-figure-of-merit thermoelectrics by scalable bottom-up assembly

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 233-240

  Mehta, Rutvik J ^a   Zhang, Yanliang ^a   Karthik, Chinnathambi ^a   Singh, Binay ^a   Siegel, Richard W ^a   Borca Tasciuc, Theodorian ^a   Ramanath, Ganpati ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

BULK NANO-MATERIALS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH FIGURE OF MERIT ZT; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; NANOBULK THERMOELECTRICS; NANOSTRUCTURED BULK; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; WET-CHEMICAL METHOD;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALLOY; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALLOYS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84857369268     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3213     Document Type: Article

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