Thermoelectric three-terminal hopping transport through one-dimensional nanosystems

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Jiang, Jian Hua ^a   Entin Wohlman, Ora ^b   Imry, Yoseph ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 84857695564     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.075412     Document Type: Article

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