Band structure engineering through orbital interaction for enhanced thermoelectric power factor

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Zhu, Hong ^a   Sun, Wenhao ^a   Armiento, Rickard ^b   Lazic, Predrag ^c   Ceder, Gerbrand ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; MICROELECTRONICS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SPIN ORBIT COUPLING; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; THERMOELECTRICITY;

BAND STRUCTURE ENGINEERING; MULTIPLE CARRIERS; ORBITAL INTERACTION; SOLUTION DESIGNS; STRONG CORRELATION; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRIC POWER FACTORS; THERMOELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR;

BAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 84896766203     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4866861     Document Type: Article

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