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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 26, Issue 27, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/27/275303
Keywords
electron transport; molecular junctions; thermoelectric efficiency
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- [NSF-DMR-PREM 0934195]
- [NSF-EPS-1010094]
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In this work we report the results of theoretical analysis of the effect of the thermal environment on the thermoelectric efficiency of molecular junctions. The environment is represented by two thermal phonon baths associated with the electrodes, which are kept at different temperatures. The analysis is carried out using the Buttiker model within the scattering matrix formalism to compute electron transmission through the system. This approach is further developed so that the dephasing parameters are expressed in terms of relevant energies, including the thermal energy, strengths of coupling between the molecular bridge and the electrodes and characteristic energies of electron-phonon interactions. It is shown that the latter significantly affect thermoelectric efficiency by destroying the coherency of electron transport through the considered system.
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