Thermoelectric figure of merit of a material with caged structure and rattler atoms

Reference

• Ando M 2002 Nanophysics and Bioelectronics: A New Oddysey., Elsevier Amsterdam
   Google Scholar
• Ashcroft NM Mermin ND 1976 Solid State Physics, Saunders Philadelphia
   Google Scholar
• Cahill , DG , Watson , SK and Pohl , RO . 1992 . Lower limit to the thermal conductivity of disordered crystals . Phys. Rev. B , 46 : 6131
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chakoumakos , BC , Sales , BC , Mandrus , DG and Nolas , GS . 2000 . Structural disorder and thermal conductivity of the semiconducting clathrate Sr8 Ga16 Ge30 . J. Alloys and Compounds , 296 : 80
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Deo , B and Behera , SN . 1996 . Calculation of thermal conductivity by the Kubo formula . Phys. Rev. , 141 : 738
   Google Scholar
• DiSalvo , FJ . 1999 . Thermoelectric cooling and power generation . Science , 285 : 703
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dong , J and Sankey , OF . 1999 . Theoretical study of two expanded phases of crystalline germanium: Clathrate-I and clathrate-II . J. Phys.: Condens. Matter , 11 : 6129
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dong , J , Sankey , OF and Kern , G . 1999 . Theoretical study of the vibrational modes and their pressure dependence in the pure clathrate-II silicon framework . Phys. Rev. B , 60 : 950
   Google Scholar
• Dong , J , Sankey , OF , Ramachandran , GK and McMillan , PF . 2000 . Chemical trends of the rattling phonon modes in alloyed germanium clathrates . J. Appl. Phys. , 87 : 7726
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Feldman , JL and Singh , DJ . 1996 . Lattice dynamics of skutterudites: first-principles and model calculations . Phys. Rev. B. , 53 : 6273
   Google Scholar
• Hicks , LD , Harman , TC , Sun , X and Dresselhaus , MS . 1996 . Experimental study of the effect of quantum-well structures on the thermoelectric figure of merit . Phys. Rev. B , 53 : R10493
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kataura , H , Maniwa , Y and Kodama , T . 2001 . High-yield fullerene encapsulation in single-wall carbon nanotubes . Synth. Met. , 121 : 1195
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kataura , TPHKH and Achiba , Y . 2001 . Metallic polymers of C60 inside single-walled carbon nanotubes . Phys. Rev. Lett. , 87 : 267401
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Khitun , A , Balandin , A , Wang , KL and Chen , G . 2000 . Enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit of Si1- x Ge x quantum wires due to spatial confinement of acoustic phonons . Physica. E , 8 : 13
   Google Scholar
• Llunell M Alemony P Alvarez S Zhukov VP et al. 1996 Electronic structure and bonding in skutterudite-type phosphides Phys. Rev. B 53 10605
   Google Scholar
• Mahan , G . 1997 . Thermoelectric materials: new approaches to an old problem . Physics Today , 50 : 429
   Google Scholar
• Mahan , GD and Sofo , JO . 1996 . The best thermoelectric . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. , 93 : 743
   Google Scholar
• Mao , W and Bedell , KS . 1999 . Thermoelectric figure of merit of strongly correlated superlattice semiconductors . Phys. Rev. B , 59 : R15590
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mayer RR Sloan J Dunin-Borkowski RE Kirkland AI et al. 2000 Discrete atom imaging of one-dimensional crystals formed within single-walled carbon nanotubes Science 289 1324
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Nolas , GS , Cohen , JL , Slack , GA and Schujman , SB . 1998 . Semiconducting Ge clathrates: promising candidates for thermoelectric applications . Phys. Rev. Lett. , 73 : 178
   Google Scholar
• Nolas , GS and Slack , GA . 2001 . Thermoelectric clathrates . American Scientist , 89 : 136
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nolas GS Taxizawa H Endo T Sellinschegg H et al. 2000 Thermoelectric properties of Sn-filled skutterudites Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 52
   Google Scholar
• Sales BC Mandrus D Chakoumakos BC Keppens V et al. 1997 Filled skutterudite antimonides: electron crystals and phonon glasses Phys. Rev. B 56 15081
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sales , BC , Mandrus , D and Williams , RK . 1996 . Filled skutterudite antimonides: a new class of thermoelectric materials . Science , 272 : 1325
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sanchez-Castro , C , Bedell , KS and Cooper , BP . 1993 . Hybridization gap insulating behavior of Ce3 Bi4 Pt3 . Phys. Rev. B , 47 : 6879
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Singh , DJ and Mazin , II . 1997 . Calculated thermoelectric properties of La-filled skutterudites . Phys. Rev. B , 56 : R1650
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Singh , DJ and Pickett , WE . 1994 . Skutterudite antimonides: quasilinear bands and unusual transport . Phys. Rev. B , 50 : 11235
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Slack GA 1979 The thermal conductivity of nonmetallic crystals In: Ehrenreich, H. and Turnbull, D. (Eds.) Solid State 34 p. 1 Academic Press Boston
   Google Scholar
• Smith , BW , Monthioux , M and Luzzi , DE . 1998 . Encapsulated C60 in carbon nanotubes . Nature , 396 : 323
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Venkatasubramanian , R , Siivola , E , Colpitts , T and O’Quinn , B . 2001 . Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit . Nature , 413 : 597
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zubarev , DN . 1960 . Double time Green's function in statistical physics . Sov. Phys. USPEKHI , 3 : 320
   Google Scholar