Enhancement of thermoelectric properties by modulation-doping in silicon germanium alloy nanocomposites

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2077-2082

  Yu, Bo ^a   Zebarjadi, Mona ^b   Wang, Hui ^a   Lukas, Kevin ^a   Wang, Hengzhi ^a   Wang, Dezhi ^a   Opeil, Cyril ^a   Dresselhaus, Mildred ^c   Chen, Gang ^b   Ren, Zhifeng ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

dimensionless figure of merit; Modulation doping; nanocomposite; silicon germanium (SiGe); thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS; DIMENSIONLESS FIGURE-OF-MERIT; MODULATION DOPING; POWER FACTORS; SILICON GERMANIUM; SILICON-GERMANIUM ALLOYS; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRICS;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; GERMANIUM ALLOYS; MODULATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; SILICON; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

SILICON ALLOYS;

EID: 84859708941     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl3003045     Document Type: Article

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