Benjamin Balke
University of Mainz
140 Papers
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Benjamin Balke is an academic researcher from University of Mainz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thermoelectric effect & Thermoelectric materials. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 140 publications. Previous affiliations of Benjamin Balke include University of Stuttgart & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Papers
Spintronics: a challenge for materials science and solid-state chemistry.
TL;DR: In this Review, the most important developments in the field of spintronics are described from the point of view of materials science.
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Half-Heusler compounds: Novel materials for energy and spintronic applications
TL;DR: In this paper, the structure, the origin of the band gap and the functionalities of semiconducting half-Heusler compounds are reviewed. But the authors focus on the magnetic properties of the half-heusler compound.
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Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future
Davide Beretta,Davide Beretta,Neophytos Neophytou,James M. Hodges,Mercouri G. Kanatzidis,Dario Narducci,Marisol Martin Gonzalez,Matt Beekman,Benjamin Balke,Giacomo Cerretti,Wolfgang Tremel,Alexandra Zevalkink,Anna I. Hofmann,Christian Müller,Bernhard Dörling,Mariano Campoy-Quiles,Mario Caironi +16 more
TL;DR: A broad review of thermoelectric materials can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the major steps in the history of thermophysics, from the very early discovery to present technology.
Optimum Carrier Concentration in n-Type PbTe Thermoelectrics
Yanzhong Pei,Zachary M. Gibbs,Andrei Gloskovskii,Benjamin Balke,Wolfgang G. Zeier,G. Jeffrey Snyder +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of optimizing the thermoelectric figure of merit, zT, by controlling the doping level were investigated. But the effect of the doping on the performance of PbTe was not considered.
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Direct observation of half-metallicity in the Heusler compound Co2MnSi
Martin Jourdan,Jan Minár,Jürgen Braun,Alexander Kronenberg,Stanislav Chadov,Benjamin Balke,Andrei Gloskovskii,M. Kolbe,Hans-Joachim Elmers,Gerd Schönhense,Hubert Ebert,Claudia Felser,Mathias Kläui +12 more
TL;DR: This work investigates epitaxial thin films of the compound Co2MnSi in situ by ultraviolet-photoemission spectroscopy, taking advantage of a novel multi-channel spin filter and shows a highly spin polarized bulk-like surface resonance ingrained in a half metallic bulk band structure.