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Fabrication of Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 Thermoelectric Thin Films using Radio Frequency Magnetron Sputtering Technique
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Giant thermoelectric effect from transmission supernodes
Justin P Bergfield1, Michelle A Solis, Charles A Stafford
1College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 East University Boulevard, Arizona 85721, USA. justinb@email.arizona.edu
Abstract:
We predict an enormous order-dependent quantum enhancement of thermoelectric effects in the vicinity of higher-order interferences in the transmission spectrum of a nanoscale junction. Single-molecule junctions based on 3,3'-biphenyl and polyphenyl ether (PPE) are investigated in detail. The nonequilibrium thermodynamic efficiency and power output of a thermoelectric heat engine based on a 1,3-benzene junction are calculated using many-body theory and compared to the predictions of the figure-of-merit ZT.
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