Engineered doping of organic semiconductors for enhanced thermoelectric efficiency

Nature Materials - Tập 12 Số 8 - Trang 719-723 - 2013
GH Kim1, Lei Shao1, K. Zhang1, Kevin P. Pipe2
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-2125, USA
2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122, USA

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