Nonlinear thermoelectric efficiency of superlattice-structured nanowires

H Karbaschi, J Lovén, K Courteaut, A Wacker… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We theoretically investigate nonlinear ballistic thermoelectric transport in a superlattice-
structured nanowire. By a special choice of nonuniform widths of the superlattice barriers …

Non-uniform superlattice magnetic tunnel junctions

S Chakraborti, A Sharma - Nanotechnology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a new class of non-uniform superlattice magnetic tunnel junctions (Nu-SLTJs)
with the linear, Gaussian, Lorentzian, and Pöschl–Teller width and height based profiles …

Band-pass Fabry-Pèrot magnetic tunnel junctions

A Sharma, A Tulapurkar, B Muralidharan - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a high-performance magnetic tunnel junction by making electronic analogs of
optical phenomena such as anti-reflections and Fabry-Pèrot resonances. The devices we …

Antireflection coating for miniband transport and Fabry–Pérot resonances in GaAs/AlGaAs superlattices

C Pacher, C Rauch, G Strasser, E Gornik… - Applied Physics …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
It is demonstrated that standard concepts for optics like Fabry–Pérot resonances and
antireflection coatings can be extended to ballistic electron transport in semiconductor …

Superlattice design for optimal thermoelectric generator performance

P Priyadarshi, A Sharma, S Mukherjee… - Journal of Physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider the design of an optimal superlattice thermoelectric generator via the energy
bandpass filter approach. Various configurations of superlattice structures are explored to …

Thermionic refrigerators with non-Richardson current

MF O'Dwyer, RA Lewis, C Zhang - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Most models of solid-state thermionic devices assume that all electrons with energy in the
direction of transport greater than the barrier height are transmitted and utilize the …

[HTML][HTML] Basic Cells Special Features and Their Influence on Global Transport Properties of Long Periodic Structures

LRN Oliveira, MGE da Luz - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this contribution, we address quantum transport in long periodic arrays whose basic cells,
localized potentials U (x), display certain particular features. We investigate under which …

Filtering electrons by mode coupling in finite semiconductor superlattices

X Luo, J Shi, Y Zhang, Z Niu, D Miao, H Mi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Electron transmission through semiconductor superlattices is studied with transfer matrix
method and resonance theory. The formation of electron band-pass transmission is ascribed …

Non-conventional graphene superlattices as electron band-pass filters

A Sánchez-Arellano, J Madrigal-Melchor… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Electron transmission through different non-conventional (non-uniform barrier height) gated
and gapped graphene superlattices (GSLs) is studied. Linear, Gaussian, Lorentzian and …

Gaussian and Gaussian-pulsed-like Fermi velocity graphene structures

H García-Cervantes, GJE Santos… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Gaussian and Gaussian-related structures are quite attractive due to its versatility to
modulate the electronic transport, including its possibility as electron filters. Here, we show …