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Thermoelectric figure of merit of bulk nanostructured composites with distributed parameters

Materials Science 2011-10-11 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We consider the effective properties of composite structure that includes nanocontacts between macrocrystallits of bulk material. The model of a such nanostructured composite is developed. In the mean-field approximation we calculate effective values of the thermopower, heat - and the electrical conductivity, thermoelectric figure of merit.

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@article{arxiv.1110.1872,
  title  = {Thermoelectric figure of merit of bulk nanostructured composites with distributed parameters},
  author = {A. A. Snarskii and A. K. Sarychev and I. V. Bezsudnov and A. N. Lagarkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1872},
  year   = {2011}
}