Thermoelectric phonon stop band materials

International Conference on Thermoelectrics, ICT, Proceedings

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 399-402

  Balandin, A A ^a   Lazarenkova, O L ^a,b   Boechat, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conducting materials; Dielectric materials; Frequency; Phonons; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals; Quantum dots; Superlattices; Thermal conductivity; Thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; NANOCRYSTALS; PHONONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SUPERLATTICES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

BANDGAP MATERIALS; CONDUCTING MATERIALS; FREQUENCY; QUANTUM DOT SUPERLATTICES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY REDUCTIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY TENSORS; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC FIGURE OF MERIT;

PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

EID: 84946092988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICT.2003.1287532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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