Validity of the rigid band approximation in the study of the thermopower of narrow band gap semiconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Mal Soon ^a   Mahanti, S D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860478450     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.165149     Document Type: Article

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