Thermoelectric ceramics for energy harvesting

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Koumoto, Kunihito ^a   Funahashi, Ryoji ^b   Guilmeau, Emmanuel ^c   Miyazaki, Yuzuru ^d   Weidenkaff, Anke ^e   Wang, Yifeng ^a,f   Wan, Chunlei ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c LABORATOIRE CRISMAT   (France)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^f NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT; METAL OXIDE MATERIALS; METAL OXIDES; SRTIO; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL;

MANGANESE; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; SILICIDES;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84872119907     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jace.12076     Document Type: Article

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