Surface disordered Ge-Si core-shell nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4698-4704

  Markussen, Troels ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

GeSi core shell nanowires; thermoelectrics; transport

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC CALCULATIONS; CORE-SHELL; CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTANCE; FIGURE OF MERITS; HOLE STATE; PHONON TRANSPORT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SI NANOWIRE; SURFACE DISORDER; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRICS; TRANSPORT;

GERMANIUM; PHONONS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICON; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

NANOWIRES;

GERMANIUM; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEAT; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; GERMANIUM; HOT TEMPERATURE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84866321533     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302061f     Document Type: Article

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