Ab initio calculations of structural, optical and thermoelectric properties for CoSb 3 and ACo 4Sb 12 (A = La, Tl and Y) compounds

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 65, Issue , 2012, Pages 509-519

  Rahnamaye Aliabad, H A ^a   Ghazanfari, M ^a   Ahmad, Iftikhar ^b   Saeed, M A ^c  

^a HAKIM SABZEVARI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAKAND   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

CoSb 3; Optic; Thermoelectric

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT THEORY; COSB 3; FULL POTENTIAL-LINEARIZED AUGMENTED PLANE WAVES; FUNDAMENTAL BAND GAP; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIC; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84867874583     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2012.08.013     Document Type: Article

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