Increasing thermoelectric efficiency: A dynamical systems approach

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Casati, Giulio ^a,b   Mejía Monasterio, Carlos ^c   Prosen, Toma ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; CHARGE CARRIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); CARNOT EFFICIENCIES; CARRIER MOLECULES; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH; ERGODIC; KINETIC (POLYM.); LINEAR RESPONSE (LR); LORENTZ GAS (LG); MICROSCOPIC MECHANISMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; ROTATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM (RDOF); TRANSPORT COEFFICIENTS; TRANSPORT OF PARTICLES;

CARRIER TRANSPORT;

EID: 46949110126     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.016601     Document Type: Article

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