Three-terminal semiconductor junction thermoelectric devices: Improving performance

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jiang, Jian Hua ^a,b,c   Entin Wohlman, Ora ^d,e   Imry, Yoseph ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; FIGURE OF MERITS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; OPTICAL PHONONS; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; THREE-TERMINAL JUNCTIONS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

BOSONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84881184942     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/7/075021     Document Type: Article

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