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Title: Search for new thermoelectric materials with low Lorenz number

Abstract

High-throughput search for thermoelectric materials with low Lorenz number based on DOS shape and thermoelectric quality factor.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1393380
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5K00-70130
Journal ID: ISSN 2050-7488; JMCAET
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308; 1334713; 1555340
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Materials Chemistry. A
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 33; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-7488
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; distribution functions; electronic properties; thermal conductivity; thermoelectric equipment; thermoelectricity; bulk semiconductors

Citation Formats

McKinney, Robert W., Gorai, Prashun, Stevanović, Vladan, and Toberer, Eric S. Search for new thermoelectric materials with low Lorenz number. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1039/c7ta04332e.
McKinney, Robert W., Gorai, Prashun, Stevanović, Vladan, & Toberer, Eric S. Search for new thermoelectric materials with low Lorenz number. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ta04332e
McKinney, Robert W., Gorai, Prashun, Stevanović, Vladan, and Toberer, Eric S. Fri . "Search for new thermoelectric materials with low Lorenz number". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ta04332e. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1393380.
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title = {Search for new thermoelectric materials with low Lorenz number},
author = {McKinney, Robert W. and Gorai, Prashun and Stevanović, Vladan and Toberer, Eric S.},
abstractNote = {High-throughput search for thermoelectric materials with low Lorenz number based on DOS shape and thermoelectric quality factor.},
doi = {10.1039/c7ta04332e},
journal = {Journal of Materials Chemistry. A},
number = 33,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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