Manipulation of the crystal structure defects: An alternative route to the reduction in lattice thermal conductivity and improvement in thermoelectric performance of CuGaTe2

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Wenchang ^a   Li, Yapeng ^b   Du, Zhengliang ^a   Meng, Qingsen ^b   Sun, Zheng ^b   Ren, Wei ^b   Cui, Jiaolin ^a  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ROUTES; ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LATTICE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TETRAGONAL DEFORMATION; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; ZINC-BLENDE STRUCTURES;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; THERMOELECTRICITY; ZINC SULFIDE;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84880305358     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4813088     Document Type: Article

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