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EPL
卷 87, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/87/57009
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- U. S. Department of Energy Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
We study thermoelectric properties of inhomogeneous nanogranular materials for weak tunneling conductance between the grains, g(t) < 1. We calculate the thermopower and figure of merit taking into account the shift of the chemical potential and the asymmetry of the density of states in the vicinity of the Fermi surface. We show that the weak coupling between the grains leads to a high thermopower and low thermal conductivity resulting in relatively high values of the figure of merit on the order of one. We estimate the temperature at which the figure of merit has its maximum value for two- and three-dimensional samples. Our results are applicable for many emerging materials, including artificially self-assembled nanoparticle arrays. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2009
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