期刊
ACS NANO
卷 3, 期 11, 页码 3497-3504出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn900986r
关键词
thermoelectricity; Seebeck coefficient; thermoelectric figure of merit; electronic heat conductance; phononic heat conductance; atomic junction; single-molecule junction; density functional theory
类别
资金
- MOE ATU [97-2112-M-009-011-MY3]
- NCTS
- NCHC [097-2816-M-009-004, 97-2120-M-009-005]
Using first-principles approaches, we investigate the thermoelectric efficiency, characterized by the figure of merit ZT, in metallic atomic junctions and insulating molecular junctions. To gain insight into the properties of ZT, an analytical theory is also developed to study the dependence of ZT on lengths (l) and temperatures (T). The theory considers the combined heat current carried by electrons and phonons. We observe a characteristic temperature: T-0 = (beta/gamma(l))(1/2). When T << T-0, the electronic heat current dominates the combined heat current and ZT proportional to T-2. When T >> T-0, the phononic heat current dominates the combined heat current and ZT tends to a saturation value. Moreover, the metallic atomic junctions and the insulating molecular junctions have opposite trend for the dependence of ZT on lengths, that is, ZT increases as the length increases for aluminum atomic junctions, while ZT decreases as the length increases for alkanethiol molecular junctions.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据