Thermoelectricity in disordered organic semiconductors under the premise of the Gaussian disorder model and its variants

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 3247-3253

  Mendels, Dan ^a   Tessler, Nir ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Energy and charge transport; Energy conversion and storage

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLARONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY CONVERSION; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ENERGY AND CHARGE TRANSPORTS; ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGES; FRAME OF REFERENCE; GAUSSIAN DISORDER MODELS; OFF-DIAGONAL DISORDER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

EID: 84990180993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz5016058     Document Type: Article

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