Nanoscale organic thermoelectric materials: measurement, theoretical models, and optimization strategies

YJ Zeng, D Wu, XH Cao, WX Zhou… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The demands for waste heat energy recovery from industrial production, solar energy, and
electronic devices have resulted in increasing attention being focused on thermoelectric …

Energy conversion and transport in molecular-scale junctions

H Zhang, Y Zhu, P Duan, M Shiri, SC Yelishala… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular-scale junctions (MSJs) have been considered the ideal testbed for probing
physical and chemical processes at the molecular scale. Due to nanometric confinement …

Precise control of local spin states in an adsorbed magnetic molecule with an STM tip: Theoretical insights from first-principles-based simulation

X Wang, L Yang, LZ Ye, X Zheng… - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The precise tuning of local spin states in adsorbed organometallic molecules by a
mechanically controlled scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip has become a focus of …

Spin thermoelectric effects in Kondo quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads

I Weymann, J Barnaś - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2013 - APS
Thermoelectric effects in transport through a quantum dot coupled to external ferromagnetic
leads are investigated theoretically. The basic thermoelectric transport characteristics, such …

Double quantum dot as a minimal thermoelectric generator

S Donsa, S Andergassen, K Held - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Based on numerical renormalization group calculations, we demonstrate that experimentally
realized double quantum dots constitute a minimal thermoelectric generator. In the Kondo …

Nanoscale spin Seebeck rectifier: controlling thermal spin transport across insulating magnetic junctions with localized spin

J Ren, J Fransson, JX Zhu - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
The spin Seebeck effect is studied across a charge insulating magnetic junction, in which
thermal-spin conjugate transport is assisted by the exchange interactions between the …

FeCoCp3 Molecular Magnets as Spin Filters

PN Abufager, R Robles, N Lorente - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metallorganic molecules have been proposed as excellent spin filters in molecular
spintronics because of the large spin polarization of their electronic structure. However, most …

Charge and spin thermoelectric transport in benzene-based molecular nano-junctions: a quantum many-body study

P Senapati, P Parida - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Within the Coulomb blockade regime, our study delves into the charge, spin, and
thermoelectric transport characteristics of a benzene-based molecular nano-junction using …

Fate of the spin- Kondo effect in the presence of temperature gradients

MA Sierra, R López, D Sánchez - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We consider a strongly interacting quantum dot connected to two leads held at quite different
temperatures. Our aim is to study the behavior of the Kondo effect in the presence of large …

Thermoelectric response of a correlated impurity in the nonequilibrium Kondo regime

A Dorda, M Ganahl, S Andergassen, W von der Linden… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We study nonequilibrium thermoelectric transport properties of a correlated impurity
connected to two leads for temperatures below the Kondo scale. At finite bias, for which a …