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Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials

Akram I. Boukai, Yuri Bunimovich, Jamil Tahir-Kheli, Jen-Kan Yu, William A. Goddard III & James R. Heath

Nature 451, 168-171(10 January 2008)

doi:10.1038/nature06458

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Scanning electron micrographs of the device used to quantitate the thermopower and electrical and thermal conductivity of Si nanowire arrays.

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Factors contributing to ZT for various Si nanowires. All nanowires are 20 nm in height.

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Temperature dependence of ZT for two different groups of nanowires.

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Thermopower calculation plotted along with experimental data (black points) from a 20-nm-wide Si nanowire p-type doped at 3 times 1019 cm-3.

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