Fundamental aspects of steady-state conversion of heat to work at the nanoscale

G Benenti, G Casati, K Saito, RS Whitney - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Light fields in complex media: Mesoscopic scattering meets wave control

S Rotter, S Gigan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The newly emerging field of wave front sha** in complex media has recently seen
enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental …

Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

An atlas of two-dimensional materials

P Miró, M Audiffred, T Heine - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials together with recent
advances in exfoliation techniques have set the foundations for the manufacturing of single …

[HTML][HTML] Improvements on non-equilibrium and transport Green function techniques: The next-generation transiesta

N Papior, N Lorente, T Frederiksen, A García… - Computer Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present novel methods implemented within the non-equilibrium Green function code
(NEGF) transiesta based on density functional theory (DFT). Our flexible, next-generation …

Disordered electronic systems

PA Lee, TV Ramakrishnan - Reviews of modern physics, 1985 - APS
This paper reviews the progress made in the last several years in understanding the
properties of disordered electronic systems. Even in the metallic limit, serious deviations …

Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications

N Marzari, AA Mostofi, JR Yates, I Souza… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012 - APS
The electronic ground state of a periodic system is usually described in terms of extended
Bloch orbitals, but an alternative representation in terms of localized “Wannier functions” …

[KNJIGA][B] Nanostructures & nanomaterials: synthesis, properties & applications

G Cao - 2004 - books.google.com
This important book focuses on the synthesis and fabrication of nanostructures and
nanomaterials, but also includes properties and applications of nanostructures and …

Ab initio modeling of quantum transport properties of molecular electronic devices

J Taylor, H Guo, J Wang - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
We report on a self-consistent ab initio technique for modeling quantum transport properties
of atomic and molecular scale nanoelectronic devices under external bias potentials. The …

Four-terminal phase-coherent conductance

M Büttiker - Physical review letters, 1986 - APS
A conductance formula for a sample of arbitrary shape with four terminals is derived to
describe transport in the limit where carriers can traverse the sample without suffering phase …