Nanotech milling produces dramatic increase in thermoelectric performance of bulk semiconductor

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 13:21 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers from Boston College, MIT, Clemson and Virginia have used nanotechnology to achieve a 60-90 percent increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit of p-type half-Heusler, a common bulk semiconductor compound, the team reported in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters...

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