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 …

Coulomb drag is a transport phenomenon whereby long-range Coulomb interaction
between charge carriers in two closely spaced but electrically isolated conductors induces a …

Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

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 …

Rectification of thermal fluctuations in mesoscopic conductors is the key idea behind recent
attempts to build nanoscale thermoelectric energy harvesters to convert heat into useful …

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 propose a nanoscale heat engine that utilizes the physics of resonant tunneling in
quantum dots in order to transfer electrons only at specific energies. The nanoengine …

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

We study the rectification of voltage fluctuations in a system consisting of two Coulomb-
coupled quantum dots. The first quantum dot is connected to a reservoir where voltage …

We demonstrate experimentally an autonomous nanoscale energy harvester that utilizes the
physics of resonant tunneling quantum dots. Gate-defined quantum dots on GaAs/AlGaAs …