Ballistic thermoelectric transport in structured nanowires

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Biao ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a   Yang, Ronggui ^b   Li, Baowen ^a,c,d  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

ballistic; Green's function; nanowire; structure; thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; SEEBECK COEFFICIENT; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY CONVERSION; THERMOELECTRICITY;

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; ENERGY CONVERTERS; NANO SCALE; NANOWIRES (NWS); QUANTUM INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; SUPERLATTICE NANOWIRES; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84903703386     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/6/065018     Document Type: Article

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