Thermoelectric performance of a driven double quantum dot

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Juergens, Stefan ^a,b   Haupt, Federica ^a,b   Moskalets, Michael ^c   Splettstoesser, Janine ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA Fundamentals of Future Information Technology   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

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EID: 84879932369     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.245423     Document Type: Article

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