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LanTraP: A code for calculating thermoelectric transport properties with the Landauer formalism

Materials Science 2020-01-07 v2 Computational Physics

Abstract

A code for calculating the semi-classical thermoelectric and electronic transport properties is described. It uses the Landauer transport theory, which is equivalent to the Boltzmann theory, by introducing a central quantity-the distribution of modes. Its usage enables the so-called band-counting algorithm that can speed up the calculation and offers the potential to rapidly screen DFT band structures. Good agreements are found when comparing the results obtained using band-counting and established Fourier-based interpolation methods.

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@article{arxiv.1806.08888,
  title  = {LanTraP: A code for calculating thermoelectric transport properties with the Landauer formalism},
  author = {Xufeng Wang and Evan Witkoske and Jesse Maassen and Mark Lundstrom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.08888},
  year   = {2020}
}