Abstract
We investigate the effect on the thermoelectric figure of merit of preparing materials in the form of one-dimensional conductors or quantum wires. Our calculations show that this approach has the potential to achieve a significant increase in the figure of merit over both the bulk value and the calculated superlattice values.
- Received 29 March 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.47.16631
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