Computational Exploration of the Binary A1B1 Chemical Space for Thermoelectric Performance

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 6213-6221

  Gorai, Prashun ^a,b   Parilla, Philip ^b   Toberer, Eric S ^a,b   Stevanović, Vladan ^a,b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CARRIER TRANSPORT; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPLORATION; ELECTRON AND PHONON TRANSPORTS; ORTHORHOMBIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATION; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE;

THERMOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84942155103     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01179     Document Type: Article

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