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Experimental study of the effect of quantum-well structures on the thermoelectric figure of merit
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Recently, it has been shown theoretically that it may be possible to increase the thermoelectric figure of merit ($Z$) of certain materials by preparing them in the form of two-dimensional quantum-well structures. Using $\mathrm{PbTe}/{\mathrm{Pb}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Eu}}_{x}\mathrm{Te}$ multiple-quantum-well structures grown by molecular-beam epitaxy, we have performed thermoelectric and other transport measurements as a function of quantum-well thickness and doping. Our results are found to be consistent with theoretical predictions and indicate that an increase in $Z$ over bulk values may be possible through quantum confinement effects using quantum-well structures.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hicks, L. D., Harman, T. C., Sun, X., & Dresselhaus, M. S.
- Venue
- Physical Review B
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1996-04-15
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- R10493-R10496
- ISSN
- 0163-1829 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-3795
- OpenAlex
- W2038174300
- Cited by
- 799
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 15.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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