Breaking the trade-off between thermal and electrical conductivities in the thermoelectric material of an artificially tilted multilayer

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sakai, Akihiro ^a   Kanno, Tsutomu ^a   Takahashi, Kouhei ^a   Tamaki, Hiromasa ^a   Kusada, Hideo ^a   Yamada, Yuka ^a   Abe, Hiroya ^b  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84906280098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06089     Document Type: Article

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