Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Phonon drag thermopower in doped bismuth

  • V. D. Kagan*
  • , N. A. Red'ko
  • , N. A. Rodionov
  • , V. I. Pol'shin
  • , O. V. Zotova
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

7 Scopus citations

Abstract

The low-temperature (2 < T < 80 K) thermopower in bismuth doped by tellurium, a donor impurity (0 < c ≤ 0.07 at. % Te), is dominated by the phonon component, which shifts to higher temperatures with increasing dopant concentration. The temperature and concentration dependences of the phonon thermopower of doped bismuth are satisfactorily described by the theory of phonon drag of electrons. The theory is developed for a strongly anisotropic electron spectrum and includes both direct and two-step phonon drag.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1410-1419
Number of pages10
JournalPhysics of the Solid State
Volume46
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2004
Externally publishedYes

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Phonon drag thermopower in doped bismuth'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this