Heat rectification effect of serially coupled quantum dots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Tseng, Yen Chun ^a   Kuo, David M T ^a   Chang, Yia Chung ^b   Lin, Yan Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRICAL STRUCTURES; COULOMB-BLOCKADE REGIME; COUPLED QUANTUM DOTS; HEAT RECTIFICATION; LOW-TEMPERATURE REGIME; METALLIC ELECTRODES; PHONON THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

NANOWIRES; PHONONS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84882435576     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4817258     Document Type: Article

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