Thermoelectric transport effects beyond single parabolic band and acoustic phonon scattering
Heng Wang, Ramya Gurunathan, Chenguang Fu, Runzi Cui, Tiejun Zhu, G. Jeffrey Snyder
Abstract
we review strategies to understand thermoelectric systems that are more complex than a single parabolic band with acoustic phonon scattering.
Topics & Concepts
Thermoelectric effectPhononCondensed matter physicsScatteringPhonon scatteringMaterials sciencePhysicsThermoelectric materialsOpticsQuantum mechanicsAdvanced Thermoelectric Materials and DevicesThermal properties of materialsAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics