Observations of Co4 + in a higher spin state and the increase in the seebeck coefficient of thermoelectric Ca 3Co 4O 9

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Klie, R F ^a   Qiao, Q ^a   Paulauskas, T ^a   Gulec, A ^a   Rebola, A ^a   Ogut S ^a   Prange, M P ^b,c   Idrobo, J C ^c   Pantelides, S T ^b,c   Kolesnik, S ^d,e   Dabrowski, B ^d,e   Ozdemir, M ^f,g   Boyraz, C ^f,g   Mazumdar, D ^f,g   Gupta, A ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f University of Alabama   (United States)

^g MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPIN STATE; THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT; Z-CONTRAST IMAGING;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; SEEBECK COEFFICIENT; SPIN DYNAMICS;

CALCIUM;

EID: 84860718790     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.196601     Document Type: Article

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