Structure and transport properties of the BiCuSeO-BiCuSO solid solution

Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1043-1058

  Berardan, David ^a   Li, Jing ^a,b   Amzallag, Emilie ^a   Mitra, Sunanda ^a   Sui, Jiehe ^b   Cai, Wei ^b   Dragoe, Nita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Electrical resistivity; Electronic band structure; Layered chalcogenides; Thermal conductivity; Thermoelectric materials

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY GAP; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POINT DEFECTS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; SULFUR; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHALCOGEN ELEMENTS; COVALENT CHARACTER; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; LAYERED CHALCOGENIDES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SUBSTITUTION RATES; THERMAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84930504626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma8031043     Document Type: Article

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