FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS OF ELECTRON-PHONON SCATTERING

Annual Review of Heat Transfer

Volumn 17, Issue , 2014, Pages 333-383

  Sjakste, Jelena ^a   Timrov, Iurii ^a   Gava, Paola ^a   Mingo, Natalio ^b   Vast, Nathalie ^a  

^a CNRS UMR 3299   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

deformation potentials; density functional perturbation theory; density functional theory; electron phonon scattering; intervalley scattering; intravalley scattering; transport

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

AB INITIO; DEFORMATION POTENTIAL; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL PERTURBATION THEORY; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL-THEORY; ELECTRON PHONON COUPLINGS; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; INTERVALLEY SCATTERING; INTRAVALLEY SCATTERING; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84941059997     PISSN: 10490787     EISSN: 23750294     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1615/AnnualRevHeatTransfer.2014007320     Document Type: Chapter

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