Nanostructured potential well/barrier engineering for realizing unprecedentedly large thermoelectric power factors
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عنوان ژورنال: Materials Today Physics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2542-5293
DOI: 10.1016/j.mtphys.2019.100159