• DocumentCode
    3338136
  • Title

    Segmented nanowires: a theoretical study of thermoelectric properties

  • Author

    Lin, Yu-Ming ; Rabin, Oded ; Dresselhaus, M.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    25-29 Aug. 2002
  • Firstpage
    265
  • Lastpage
    268
  • Abstract
    A theoretical model for the transport properties of segmented nanowires is developed and is used to calculate the thermoelectric properties of Bi/Bi1-xSbx segmented nanowires. The calculation shows that higher thermoelectric performance may be achieved in segmented nanowires than in ordinary 1D nanowires of the same alloy composition. For n-type Bi/Bi1-xSbx segmented nanowires, the ZT increases with decreasing segment length, while the optimal segment length for p-type systems is about 10 nm.
  • Keywords
    bismuth; bismuth compounds; nanowires; semiconductor materials; thermoelectricity; 10 nm; Bi-BiSb; ZT; n-type; p-type; segment length; segmented nanowires; thermoelectric properties; Bismuth; Conducting materials; Lattices; Nanostructured materials; Nanowires; Quantum dots; Superlattices; Thermal conductivity; Thermoelectricity; Wire;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Thermoelectrics, 2002. Proceedings ICT '02. Twenty-First International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7683-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICT.2002.1190315
  • Filename
    1190315
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3338136