Ab initio optimization of phonon drag effect for lower-temperature thermoelectric energy conversion

Although the thermoelectric figure of merit zT above 300 K has seen significant improvement recently, the progress at lower temperatures has been slow, mainly limited by the relatively low Seebeck coefficient and high thermal conductivity. Here we report, for the first time to our knowledge, success...

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Main Authors: Zhou, Jiawei, Liao, Bolin, Qiu, Bo, Huberman, Samuel C., Esfarjani, Keivan, Dresselhaus, Mildred, Chen, Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103880
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