Configuring pnicogen rings in skutterudites for low phonon conductivity
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Structural order-disorder transitions and phonon conductivity of partially filled skutterudites.
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1098-0121,1550-235X
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.86.195209