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Enhanced thermoelectric performance and anomalous Seebeck effects in topological insulators

Xu et al., 2014

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Xu Y
Gan Z
Zhang S
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Physical review letters

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Improving the thermoelectric figure of merit z T is one of the greatest challenges in material science. The recent discovery of topological insulators (TIs) offers new promise in this prospect. In this work, we demonstrate theoretically that z T is strongly size dependent in TIs …
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