First-principles simulation of electron mean-free-path spectra and thermoelectric properties in silicon
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First-principles simulation of electron mean-free-path spectra and thermoelectric properties in silicon
The mean free paths (MFPs) of energy carriers are of critical importance to the nanoengineering of better thermoelectric materials. Despite significant progress in the first-principles– based understanding of the spectral distribution of phonon MFPs in recent years, the spectral distribution of electron MFPs remains unclear. In this work, we compute the energy-dependent electron scatterings and...
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عنوان ژورنال: EPL (Europhysics Letters)
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/109/57006