Thermoelectric power factor enhancement by ionized nanoparticle scattering
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Je-Hyeong Bahk, Zhixi Bian, Mona Zebarjadi, Parthiban Santhanam, Rajeev Ram, and Ali Shakouri Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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