High Performance Graphene Nano-ribbon Thermoelectric Devices by Incorporation and Dimensional Tuning of Nanopores

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hossain, Md Sharafat ^a,b   Al Dirini, Feras ^a,b   Hossain, Faruque M ^a   Skafidas, Efstratios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

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EID: 84935022994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11297     Document Type: Article

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