Large thermal conductivity decrease in point defective Bi 2Te3 bulk materials and superlattices

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Termentzidis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Pokropyvnyy, Oleksiy ^b   Woda, Michael ^c   Xiong, Shiyun ^b   Chumakov, Yuri ^b,d   Cortona, Pietro ^e   Volz, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^c Micropelt GmbH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Moldova)

^e LABORATOIRE STRUCTURES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK MATERIALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TECHNIQUES; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POINT DEFECTS; STOICHIOMETRY; SUPERLATTICES; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84872065860     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4772783     Document Type: Article

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