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

It has been well known that the phonon drag effect-an extra electrical current induced by phonon heat flow via electron-phonon interaction-can lead to unusually high Seebeck coefficient at low temperatures. However, its use for improving thermoelectric performance has been controversial. Here, using...

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Main Authors: Zhou, Jiawei (Contributor), Liao, Bolin (Contributor), Qiu, Bo (Contributor), Huberman, Samuel C. (Contributor), Esfarjani, Keivan (Contributor), Dresselhaus, Mildred (Contributor), Chen, Gang (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2017-07-06T17:58:13Z.
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