Thermoelectricty at the organic-inorganic interface

2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 14

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 845-855

  Yee, Shannon ^a   Malen, Jonathan ^b   Reddy, Pramod ^c   Segalman, Rachel ^d   Majumdar, Arun ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Currently with Benson Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; END GROUPS; ENERGY GENERATIONS; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; ENERGY TRANSPORT; FRONTIER ORBITALS; INORGANIC COMPONENTS; METAL JUNCTIONS; METAL-MOLECULE INTERFACE; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC INTERFACE; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS; THERMAL TRANSPORT;

ELECTRODES; FULLERENES; HEAT TRANSFER; HYBRID MATERIALS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES;

THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

EID: 84860507092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IHTC14-22690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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