Dopants effect on the band structure of PbTe thermoelectric material

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Takagiwa, Y ^a,b   Pei, Y ^b   Pomrehn, G ^b   Snyder, G J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DOPING; DIMENSIONLESS FIGURE OF MERIT; EFFECTIVE MASS; LA DOPING; PBTE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

BAND STRUCTURE; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

LANTHANUM;

EID: 84865839666     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4748363     Document Type: Article

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