Enhanced thermoelectric properties of solution grown Bi 2Te 3-xSe x nanoplatelet composites

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1203-1209

  Soni, Ajay ^a   Yanyuan, Zhao ^a   Ligen, Yu ^b   Aik, Michael Khor Khiam ^b   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^c   Xiong, Qihua ^a,d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bi 2Te 3 xSe xnanoplatelets; energy filtering; nanocomposites; polyol synthesis; Thermoelectric figure of merit

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH TELLURIDE; BULK VALUE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ENERGY FILTERING; FIGURE OF MERITS; GRAIN BOUNDARY SCATTERING; HIGH FREQUENCY; LOW ENERGY ELECTRONS; METALLIC CONDUCTION; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; NANOPLATELET; PHONON MODE; POLYOL METHODS; POLYOL SYNTHESIS; SEMICONDUCTING BEHAVIOR; SINTERED PELLETS; SPARK PLASMA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL TRANSPORT; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TWO-MODE BEHAVIOR; VEGARD'S LAW;

ALCOHOLS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTING TELLURIUM; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

BISMUTH; BISMUTH TELLURIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SELENIUM; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BISMUTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SELENIUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TELLURIUM; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84858211090     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2034859     Document Type: Article

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