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Zahra Sartipi1, Amir Hayati2, Javad Vahedi1
1Department of Physics, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran.
Abstract:
The thermoelectric efficiency of a thermal machine consisting of a triangular graphene nano-junction connected to three electrodes in the linear response regime is studied. Using the Onsager formalism and a combination of semi-empirical tight-binding calculations as well as Green's function theory, the efficiency at maximum output power which can be written in terms of generalized figures of merit is investigated. The results for a set temperature and chemical potential parameters have shown that adding a third terminal improves the efficiency at maximum output power compared to the two-terminal setup.
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