Enhanced thermoelectric properties in bulk nanowire heterostructure-based nanocomposites through minority carrier blocking

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1349-1355

  Yang, Haoran ^a   Bahk, Je Hyeong ^a   Day, Tristan ^b   Mohammed, Amr M S ^a   Snyder, G Jeffrey ^b   Shakouri, Ali ^a   Wu, Yue ^a,c  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ag2Te; heterostructures; minority carrier blocking; nanocomposites; PbTe; Thermoelectric

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ENERGY BARRIERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOWIRES; SILVER; SINTERING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; HETEROSTRUCTURE INTERFACES; MINORITY CARRIER; PBTE; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84922811449     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl504624r     Document Type: Article

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