Compositional disorder and its effect on the thermoelectric performance of Zn3P2 nanowire-copper nanoparticle composites

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Brockway, Lance ^a   Vasiraju, Venkata ^b   Vaddiraju, Sreeram ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carrier filtering; composites; interface engineering; nanoparticle; nanowires; thermoelectrics; Zn3P2

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FUNCTIONALIZED NANOWIRE; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INTERFACE ENGINEERING; MICROSTRUCTURAL COMPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRICS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FABRICATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOWIRES; PELLETIZING; SEEBECK COEFFICIENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; ZINC;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

EID: 84896861620     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/12/125402     Document Type: Article

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