Engineered doping of organic semiconductors for enhanced thermoelectric efficiency

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 719-723

  Kim, G H ^a   Shao, L ^a   Zhang, K ^a   Pipe, K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE POLYMER; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; LARGE-AREA DEPOSITION; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMOELECTRIC EFFICIENCY; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84880791672     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3635     Document Type: Article

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