Thermoelectricity in atom-sized junctions at room temperatures
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Thermoelectricity in atom-sized junctions at room temperatures
Atomic and molecular junctions are an emerging class of thermoelectric materials that exploit quantum confinement effects to obtain an enhanced figure of merit. An important feature in such nanoscale systems is that the electron and heat transport become highly sensitive to the atomic configurations. Here we report the characterization of geometry-sensitive thermoelectricity in atom-sized junct...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep03326