Figure-of-merit enhancement in nanostructured FeSb2-xAg x with Ag1-ySby nanoinclusions

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 50, 2012, Pages

  Zhao, Huaizhou ^a   Pokharel, Mani ^a   Chen, Shuo ^a   Liao, Bolin ^b   Lukas, Kevin ^a   Opeil, Cyril ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   Ren, Zhifeng ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FESB; METAL/SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACE; MOLAR RATIO; NANO INCLUSION; NANO-STRUCTURED; STRONGLY CORRELATED MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE REGIMES; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOCOMPOSITES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

SILVER;

EID: 84870565891     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/50/505402     Document Type: Article

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