Impurity clustering and impurity-induced bands in PbTe-, SnTe-, and GeTe-based bulk thermoelectrics
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Khang Hoang,1 S. D. Mahanti,2 and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis3,4 1Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 3Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA 4Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA Received 23 October 2009; revised manuscript received 3 February 2010; published 3 March 2010; publisher error corrected 8 March 2010
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