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Universal Limits of Thermopower and Figure of Merit from Transport Energy Statistics
Peter Zahn
The search for new thermoelectric materials aims at improving their power and efficiency, as expressed by thermopower and figure of merit . By considering a very general tr…
Signature of the topological surface state in the thermoelectric properties of BiTe
F. Rittweger, N. F. Hinsche, P. Zahn +1
We present ab initio electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory for the thermoelectric properties of BiTe films. Conductivity and thermopower are…
Lorenz function of BiTe/SbTe superlattices
N. F. Hinsche, I. Mertig, P. Zahn
Combining first principles density functional theory and semi-classical Boltzmann transport, the anisotropic Lorenz function was studied for thermoelectric BiTe/Sb$_{2}…
Thermoelectric transport in superlattices
N. F. Hinsche, B. Yu. Yavorsky, M. Gradhand +6
The thermoelectric transport properties of superlattices are analyzed on the basis of first-principles calculations and semi-classica…
Thermoelectric transport in strained Si and Si/Ge heterostructures
N. F. Hinsche, I. Mertig, P. Zahn
The anisotropic thermoelectric transport properties of bulk silicon strained in [111]-direction were studied by detailed first-principles calculations focussing on a possible enhan…
Electronic structure and transport anisotropy of Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3
B. Y. Yavorsky, N. F. Hinsche, P. Zahn +1
On the basis of detailed ab initio studies the influence of strain on the anisotropy of the transport distribution of the thermoelectrics BiTe and SbTe was investig…