In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

The recent developments in nanoscale solid-state cooling are reviewed. This includes both
theoretical and experimental studies of different physical concepts, as well as …

We review recent theoretical work on thermoelectric energy harvesting in multi-terminal
quantum-dot setups. We first discuss several examples of nanoscale heat engines based on …

Machines are only Carnot efficient if they are reversible, but then their power output is
vanishingly small. Here we ask, what is the maximum efficiency of an irreversible device with …

We describe nonlinear phonon-thermoelectric devices where charge current and electronic
and phononic heat currents are coupled, driven by voltage and temperature biases, when …

There are many exotic scenarios where the Lorenz number of the Wiedemann-Franz law is
known to deviate from expected values. However, in conventional semiconductor systems, it …

We demonstrate high-temperature thermoelectric conversion in InAs/InP nanowire quantum
dots by taking advantage of their strong electronic confinement. The electrical conductance …

The search for new efficient thermoelectric devices converting waste heat into electrical
energy is of major importance. The physics of mesoscopic electronic transport offers the …

We study the thermoelectric properties and heat-to-work conversion performance of an
interacting, multilevel quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to electronic reservoirs. We focus …

Quantum dots are model systems for quantum thermoelectric behavior because of their
ability to control and measure the effects of electron-energy filtering and quantum …