Ideal band shape in the potential thermoelectric material CuAlO 2: Comparison to NaxCoO2

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Mori, Kouta ^a,b   Sakakibara, Hirofumi ^a   Usui, Hidetomo ^a,b   Kuroki, Kazuhiko ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84884505865     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.075141     Document Type: Article

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