High thermoelectricpower factor in graphene/hBN devices

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 50, 2016, Pages 14272-14276

  Duan, Junxi ^a,b   Wang, Xiaoming ^a   Lai, Xinyuan ^a   Li, Guohong ^a   Watanabe, Kenji ^c   Taniguchi, Takashi ^c   Zebarjadi, Mona ^a,b   Andrei, Eva Y ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron hole puddles; Graphene; Screened coulomb scattering; Seebeck coefficient; Thermoelectric power factor

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; INORGANIC COMPOUND; SILICON DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONFERENCE PAPER; COOLING; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ENERGY; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHARGE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VOLUME;

EID: 85006026408     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1615913113     Document Type: Article

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