Direct measurement of thin-film thermoelectric figure of merit
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Direct measurement of thin-film thermoelectric figure of merit
Rajeev Singh, Zhixi Bian, Ali Shakouri, Gehong Zeng, Je-Hyeong Bahk, John E. Bowers, Joshua M. O. Zide, and Arthur C. Gossard Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA Department Materials, University of Santa Barbara, California 93106...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Physics Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-6951,1077-3118
DOI: 10.1063/1.3094880