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Publications in Scientific Journals:

M. Battiato, J. Tomczak, Z. Zhong, K. Held:
"Unified Picture for the Colossal Thermopower Compound FeSb2";
Physical Review Letters, 114 (2015), 236603-1 - 236603-5.



English abstract:
We identify the driving mechanism of the gigantic Seebeck coefficient in FeSb2 as the phonon-drag effect associated with an in-gap density of states that we demonstrate to derive from excess iron. We accurately model electronic and thermoelectric transport coefficients and explain the so far ill-understood correlation of maxima and inflection points in different response functions. Our scenario has far-reaching consequences for attempts to harvest the spectacular power factor of FeSb2.


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.236603


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