Engineering efficient thermoelectrics from large-scale assemblies of doped ZnO nanowires: Nanoscale effects and resonant-level scattering

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 14923-14930

  Brockway, Lance ^a   Vasiraju, Venkata ^b   Sunkara, Mahendra K ^c   Vaddiraju, Sreeram ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

hybridization; nanowires; resonance; thermoelectrics; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOWIRES; OXIDE MINERALS; RESONANCE; THERMOELECTRICITY;

COMPONENT ELEMENTS; HYBRIDIZATION; NANOSCALE EFFECTS; RESONANT SCATTERING; THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRICS;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84907835364     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5023489     Document Type: Article

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