Strong enhancement of phonon scattering through nanoscale grains in lead sulfide thermoelectrics

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Wu, Haijun ^a,b   Carrete, Jesús ^c   Zhang, Zhiyun ^b   Qu, Yongquan ^b   Shen, Xuetao ^b   Wang, Zhao ^b   Zhao, Li Dong ^d   He, Jia Qing ^a  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain; Nanoscale; Phonon; Thermal conductivity; Thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHONON SCATTERING; PHONONS; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURES; NANO SCALE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELING; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRICS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84903694222     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2014.39     Document Type: Article

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