Nanowires: A route to efficient thermoelectric devices

F Domínguez-Adame, M Martín-González… - Physica E: Low …, 2019 - Elsevier
Miniaturization of electronic devices aims at manufacturing ever smaller products, from
mesoscopic to nanoscopic sizes. This trend is challenging because the increased levels of …

Spin-dependent Seebeck effects in graphene-based molecular junctions

J Li, B Wang, F Xu, Y Wei, J Wang - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We report a first-principles investigation of spin-dependent transport properties in two
different graphene-based molecular junctions. By applying different temperatures between …

Effect of electrophilic substitution and destructive quantum interference on the thermoelectric performance in molecular devices

XH Cao, D Wu, YX Feng, WX Zhou… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Using density function theory combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function method,
the thermoelectric properties of para-Xylene-based molecular devices are investigated. It is …

Edge-defect induced spin-dependent Seebeck effect and spin figure of merit in graphene nanoribbons

QB Liu, DD Wu, HH Fu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
By using the first-principle calculations combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function
approach, we have studied spin caloritronic properties of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) …

Thermoelectric efficiency of nanoscale devices in the linear regime

G Bevilacqua, G Grosso, G Menichetti… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We study quantum transport through two-terminal nanoscale devices in contact with two
particle reservoirs at different temperatures and chemical potentials. We discuss the general …

Thermal conductivity of wrinkled graphene ring with defects

Q Ji, B Li, M Kadic, C Wang - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Graphene rings have great prospects in the fields of biological modulators, electrochemical
biosensors, and resonators, but are prone to wrinkling which can affect their physical …

Interactions and thermoelectric effects in a parallel-coupled double quantum dot

MA Sierra, M Saiz-Bretín, F Domínguez-Adame… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We investigate the nonequilibrium transport properties of a double quantum-dot system
connected in parallel to two leads, including intradot electron-electron interaction. In the …

Lattice thermal conductivity of graphene nanostructures

M Saiz-Bretín, AV Malyshev, F Domínguez-Adame… - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics is used to investigate the heat current due to the
atomic lattice vibrations in graphene nanoribbons and nanorings under a thermal gradient …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced spin thermopower in phosphorene nanoribbons via edge-state modifications

J Ou, Q Zhang - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
We investigated spin-dependent thermoelectric transport in zigzag phosphorene
nanoribbons with a ferromagnetic stripe. We explored the possibility to enhance the spin …

Spin-caloritronic transport in hexagonal graphene nanoflakes

TT Phùng, R Peters, A Honecker… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We investigate the spin-dependent thermoelectric effect of graphene flakes with magnetic
edges in the ballistic regime. Employing static, respectively, dynamic mean-field theory we …