Thermally driven ballistic rectifier
Matthews, J. ; Sanchez, D. ; Larsson, Marcus LU and Linke, Heiner LU
(2012)
In Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
85(20).
- Abstract
- The response of electric devices to an applied thermal gradient has, so far, been studied almost exclusively in two-terminal devices. Here we present measurements of the response to a thermal bias of a four-terminal, quasiballistic junction with a central scattering site. We find a novel transverse thermovoltage measured across isothermal contacts. Using a multiterminal scattering model extended to the weakly nonlinear voltage regime, we show that the device's response to a thermal bias can be predicted from its nonlinear response to an electric bias. Our approach forms a foundation for the discovery and understanding of advanced, nonlocal, thermoelectric phenomena that in the future may lead to novel thermoelectric device concepts.
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- author
- Matthews, J.
; Sanchez, D.
; Larsson, Marcus
LU
and Linke, Heiner
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics)
- volume
- 85
- issue
- 20
- article number
- 205309
- publisher
- American Physical Society
- external identifiers
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- wos:000303859200003
- scopus:84861557983
- ISSN
- 1098-0121
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.205309
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- d1950452-2adb-43f3-88ad-ce852b20592e (old id 2826549)
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title = {{Thermally driven ballistic rectifier}},
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