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Phys. Rev. B 47, 16631–16634 (1993)

Thermoelectric figure of merit of a one-dimensional conductor

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L. D. Hicks
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

M. S. Dresselhaus
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 29 March 1993; published in the issue dated 15 June 1993

We investigate the effect on the thermoelectric figure of merit of preparing materials in the form of one-dimensional conductors or quantum wires. Our calculations show that this approach has the potential to achieve a significant increase in the figure of merit over both the bulk value and the calculated superlattice values.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.47.16631
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.47.16631
PACS:
72.20.Pa
 
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