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SUBMITTER: Xie H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4217114 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xie Hanhui H Wang Heng H Fu Chenguang C Liu Yintu Y Snyder G Jeffrey GJ Zhao Xinbing X Zhu Tiejun T
Scientific reports 20141103
The intrinsic structural disorder dramatically affects the thermal and electronic transport in semiconductors. Although normally considered an ordered compound, the half-Heusler ZrNiSn displays many transport characteristics of a disordered alloy. Similar to the (Zr,Hf)NiSn based solid solutions, the unsubstituted ZrNiSn compound also exhibits charge transport dominated by alloy scattering, as demonstrated in this work. The unexpected charge transport, even in ZrNiSn which is normally considered ...[more]