Giant thermopower and figure of merit in single-molecule devices

Details Giant thermopower and figure of merit in single-molecule devices Giant thermopower and figure of merit in single-molecule devices

2008-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/0811.3029v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.033405

We present a study of the thermopower $S$ and the dimensionless figure of merit $ZT$ in molecules sandwiched between gold electrodes. We show that for molecules with side groups, the shape of the transmission coefficient can be dramatically modified by Fano resonances near the Fermi energy, which can be tuned to produce huge increases in $S$ and $ZT$. This shows that molecules exhibiting Fano resonances have a high efficiency of thermoelectric cooling which is not present for conventional un-gated molecules with only delocalized states along their backbone.

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