Enhancing the thermoelectric power factor by using invisible dopants

Advanced Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1577-1582

  Zebarjadi, Mona ^a,b   Liao, Bolin ^a   Esfarjani, Keivan ^a,b   Dresselhaus, Mildred ^c   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

anti resonance scattering; electrical transport; nanocomposites; thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

ANTI-RESONANCE; CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; ELECTRON ENERGIES; THERMOELECTRIC POWER FACTORS; THERMOELECTRICS;

ELECTRON MOBILITY; NANOCOMPOSITES;

THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

EID: 84875200841     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201204802     Document Type: Article

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