Design principle of telluride-based nanowire heterostructures for potential thermoelectric applications

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3627-3633

  Zhang, Genqiang ^a   Fang, Haiyu ^a   Yang, Haoran ^a   Jauregui, Luis A ^a   Chen, Yong P ^a   Wu, Yue ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bismuth telluride; heterostructures; lead telluride; tellurium; Thermoelectric

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH TELLURIDE; CATALYST-FREE SYNTHESIS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; ENERGY FILTERING; LEAD TELLURIDE; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED BULK; NANOWIRE HETEROSTRUCTURES; TE NANOWIRE; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRES; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84863844166     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301327d     Document Type: Article

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