@proceedings{1263,
  keywords = {Thermal conductivity, Electrical conductivity of other crystalline inorganic semiconductors [A7280J], Thermoelectric effects (semiconductors/insulators) [A7220P], thermoelectric figure of merit, Ge-Si alloys, Thermoelectric effects in semiconductors and insulators, acoustic phonon scattering, heavily doped semiconductor, Heavily doped semiconductors, high temperature transport properties, hole-phonon scattering, holes, ionized impurity scattering, large grain size, long-wavelength phonons, phonon scattering mechanism, phonon-phonon, point defect, Si-Ge, weak scattering},
  author = {Cronin Vining},
  title = {A model for the high temperature transport properties of heavily doped p-type silicon-germanium alloys},
  abstract = {A model is presented for the high temperature transport properties of large grain size, heavily doped p-type silicon-germanium alloys. Good agreement with experiment (+or-10%) is found by considering acoustic phonon and ionized impurity scattering for holes and phonon-phonon, point defect and hole-phonon scattering for phonons. Phonon scattering by holes is found to be substantially weaker than phonon scattering by electrons, which accounts for the larger thermal conductivity values of p-type silicon-germanium alloys compared to similarly doped n-type silicon-germanium alloys. The relatively weak scattering of long-wavelength phonons by holes raises the possibility that p-type silicon-germanium alloys may be improved for thermoelectric applications by the addition of an additional phonon scattering mechanism which is effective on intermediate and long-wavelength phonons. Calculations indicate improvements in the thermoelectric figure of merit up to 40% may be possible by incorporating several volume percent of 20AA radius inclusions into p-type silicon-germanium alloys. (27 References).},
  year = {1991},
  journal = {Modern Perspectives on Thermoelectrics and Related Materials},
  volume = {234},
  pages = {95-104, },
  month = {1991///},
  publisher = {Mater. Res. Soc.},
  url = {http://cvining.com/system/files/articles/vining/Vining-MRS234-1991.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}