High-performance pseudocubic thermoelectric materials from non-cubic chalcopyrite compounds

Advanced Materials

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 3848-3853

  Zhang, Jiawei ^a,b   Liu, Ruiheng ^a   Cheng, Nian ^a,b   Zhang, Yubo ^a   Yang, Jihui ^c   Uher, Ctirad ^d   Shi, Xun ^a   Chen, Lidong ^a   Zhang, Wenqing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

degenerate electronic bands; non cubic compounds; pseudocubic structures; thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

THERMOELECTRICITY;

ELECTRONIC BAND; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; LATTICE DISTORTIONS; NON-CUBIC COMPOUNDS; PSEUDOCUBIC STRUCTURE; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRICS;

THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84902362518     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201400058     Document Type: Article

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