Thermoelectricity in fullerene-metal heterojunctions

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4089-4094

  Yee, Shannon K ^a   Malen, Jonathan A ^a,d   Majumdar, Arun ^b   Segalman, Rachel A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Currently with Benson Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C60 Seebeck; fullerene conductivity; fullerene thermoelectricity; Molecular thermopower

Indexed keywords

BONDING GEOMETRY; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTANCE; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; FULLERENE MOLECULES; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; INORGANIC MATERIALS; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; METAL CONTACTS; METAL ELECTRODES; METALLIC ELECTRODES; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; NANO SCALE; ORGANIC-INORGANIC INTERFACE; SEEBECK; SINGLE MOLECULE MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SMALL MOLECULES; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOPOWERS;

ALIGNMENT; CHEMICAL BONDS; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); ELECTRODES; FERMI LEVEL; HETEROJUNCTIONS; METALS; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; PLATINUM; THERMOELECTRIC POWER; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WORK FUNCTION;

FULLERENES;

EID: 80054050117     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl2014839     Document Type: Article

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