Interface driven energy filtering of thermoelectric power in spark plasma sintered Bi 2Te 2.7Se 0.3 nanoplatelet composites

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4305-4310

  Soni, Ajay ^a   Shen, Yiqiang ^b   Yin, Ming ^b   Zhao, Yanyuan ^a   Yu, Ligen ^c   Hu, Xiao ^b   Dong, Zhili ^b   Khor, Khiam Aik ^c   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^d   Xiong, Qihua ^a,e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bi 2Te 2.7Se 0.3 nanoplatelet composites; energy filtering; grain boundaries; interfaces; spark plasma sintering; Thermoelectric figure of merit

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; ENERGY FILTERING; FIGURE OF MERITS; FORMATION MECHANISM; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW ENERGY ELECTRONS; NANO-PLATELETS; NANOPLATELET; OPTIMAL NUMBER; SPARK PLASMA; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL TRANSPORT; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTIMIZATION; PELLETIZING; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84864651109     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302017w     Document Type: Article

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