Powerful energy harvester based on resonant-tunneling quantum wells

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sothmann, Björn ^a   Sánchez, Rafael ^b   Jordan, Andrew N ^c   Büttiker, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTER; LARGE POWER; LEVEL SPACING; NANO SCALE; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; OUTPUT POWER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 84885114908     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/095021     Document Type: Article

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