Thermoelectric properties of Sr3GaSb3 - A chain-forming Zintl compound

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 9121-9128

  Zevalkink, Alex ^a   Zeier, Wolfgang G ^a,b   Pomrehn, Gregory ^a   Schechtel, Eugen ^a   Tremel, Wolfgang ^b   Snyder, G Jeffrey ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MOBILITY; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FIGURE OF MERITS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INFINITE CHAINS; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; P-TYPE; PER UNIT; RELATED COMPOUNDS; SINGLE BAND MODELS; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; VALENCE BAND EDGES; ZINTL COMPOUND;

ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS; BALL MILLING; CALCIUM; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GALLIUM; HOT PRESSING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ZINC;

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84870040161     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2ee22378c     Document Type: Article

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