Thermoelectric effect in a serial two-quantum-dot

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 375, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1352-1356

  Chi, Feng ^a   Zheng, Jun ^b   Lu, Xiao Dong ^a   Zhang, Kai Cheng ^a  

^a BOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

Figure of merit; Quantum dot; Thermoelectric effect

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; NANOCRYSTALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRICITY;

COULOMB-BLOCKADE REGIME; COUPLING STRENGTHS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON HOLE SYMMETRY; FIGURE OF MERITS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE REGIME; THERMAL CONDUCTANCE; THERMOELECTRICAL FIGURE OF MERITS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 79951810154     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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