Enhanced thermoelectric performance and anomalous seebeck effects in topological insulators

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 22, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Yong ^a,b   Gan, Zhongxue ^b   Zhang, Shou Cheng ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Deutsches Kunststoff Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMOELECTRICITY;

ENERGY DEPENDENT; MATERIAL SCIENCE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SIZE DEPENDENT; SIZE PARAMETERS; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS;

EID: 84901924664     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.226801     Document Type: Article

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