High-temperature performance of stacked silicon nanowires for thermoelectric power generation

Journal of Electronic Materials

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2233-2238

  Stranz, Andrej ^a   Waag, Andreas ^a   Peiner, Erwin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

nanowire array; roughness; Seebeck coefficient; Silicon thermoelectrics; thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; DEEP REACTIVE-ION ETCHINGS; HIGH TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCE; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; POWER GENERATION DEVICES; THERMAL INTERFACE RESISTANCES; THERMOELECTRICS;

ASPECT RATIO; NANOWIRES; PHOTORESISTS; SEEBECK COEFFICIENT; SILICON OXIDES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84879800391     PISSN: 03615235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11664-013-2590-3     Document Type: Article

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