%0 Journal Article
%T Giant Nernst effect and bipolarity in the quasi-one-dimensional metal, Li(0.9)Mo(6)O(17)
%A J. L. Cohn
%A B. D. White
%A C. A. M. dos Santos
%A J. J. Neumeier
%J Physics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.056604
%X The Nernst coefficient for the quasi-one-dimensional metal, Li(0.9)Mo(6)O(17), is found to be among the largest known for metals (~500 microV/KT at T~20K), and is enhanced in a broad range of temperature by orders of magnitude over the value expected from Boltzmann theory for carrier diffusion. A comparatively small Seebeck coefficient implies that Li(0.9)Mo(6)O(17) is bipolar with large, partial Seebeck coefficients of opposite sign. A very large thermomagnetic figure of merit, ZT~0.5, is found at high field in the range T~35-50K.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2154v1