naa a22 4500 510802370 CHVBK 20180411083401.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11664-012-2318-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11664-012-2318-9 Min Gao School of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK aut Principle for Detecting Resonant States in Thermoelectric Materials Using a Superconductor Tunneling Junction [Elektronische Daten] [Gao Min] Recent theoretical studies indicate that the existence of resonant states near the Fermi level can lead to a significant improvement in the thermoelectric figure of merit. Experimental investigation of this concept requires determination of the existence of these resonant states. In this paper, we report a theoretical calculation on the I-V characteristic of a thermoelectric/insulator/superconductor-based tunneling junction. The results show that the resonant states can be detected by measuring the I-V characteristic of such a superconducting tunneling junction, which provides a theoretical basis for development of a measurement technique to detect the resonant states for thermoelectric materials. TMS, 2012 Thermoelectric materials nationallicence heavy fermion nationallicence resonant states nationallicence Journal of Electronic Materials Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/7(2013-07-01), 1555-1557 0361-5235 42:7<1555 2013 42 11664 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-012-2318-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-012-2318-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Min Gao School of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Electronic Materials Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/7(2013-07-01), 1555-1557 0361-5235 42:7<1555 2013 42 11664 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer