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The evolution of the thermoelectric power S(T) with doping, p, of single-layer Bi2Sr2CuO6+d ceramics in the strongly overdoped region is studied in detail. Analysis in term of drag and diffusion contributions indicates a departure of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Konstantinovic , G. Le Bras , A. Forget , D. Colson , F. Jean , G. Collin , M. Ocio , C. Ayache

We measure the temperature of a 2D electron gas in GaAs from the thermopower of a one-dimensional ballistic constriction, using the Mott relation to confirm the calibration from the electrical conductance. Under hot electron conditions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. J. Appleyard , J. T. Nicholls , M. Y. Simmons , W. R. Tribe , M. Pepper

The heat transport in heavy-doped n-GaAs has been investigated at temperatures T=300 K and 77 K using the irradiation of the metal-semiconductor contact by modulated CO_{2}-laser radiation. It is shown this approach giving an opportunity to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ya. Shul'man , N. A. Mordovets , I. N. Kotel'nikov

This paper discusses a simple calculation for the diffusion thermopower of a transition metal ferromagnet. The main result of this calculation is that unlike in the case of a free-electron model, the diffusion thermopower S and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Thiruvikraman

Ionic thermoelectrics show great potential in low-grade heat harvesting and thermal sensing owing to their ultrahigh thermopower, low cost and ease in production. However, the lack of effective n-type ionic thermoelectric materials…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Sijing Liu , Yuewang Yang , He Huang , Jiongzhi Zheng , Gongze Liu , Tsz Ho To , Baoling Huang

The low magnetic field diffusion thermopower of a high mobility GaAs-heterostructure has been measured directly on an electrostatically defined micron-scale Hall-bar structure at low temperature (T = 1.6 K) in the low magnetic field regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Maximov , M. Gbordzoe , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp , D. Reuter

We report a comprehensive Raman study of the phonon behaviour in PdSe$_2$ in the temperature range of 5 K to 300 K. A remarkable change in the Raman spectrum is observed at 120 K: a significant enhancement of the out-of-plane phonon…

We calculate thermopower of clean and impure bilayer graphene systems. Opening a band gap through the application of an external electric field is shown to greatly enhance the thermopower of bilayer graphene, which is more than four times…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Lei Hao , T. K. Lee

The potential of bulk black-phosphorus for thermoelectric applications has been experimentally studied. The Seebeck Coefficient (S) has been measured in the temperature range from 300 K to 385 K, finding a value of S = +335 +- 10 uV/K at…

The temperature dependent surface relaxation of Ag(111) is calculated by density-functional theory. At a given temperature, the equilibrium geometry is determined by minimizing the Helmholtz free energy within the quasiharmonic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jianjun Xie , Stefano de Gironcoli , Stefano Baroni , Matthias Scheffler

A suite measurements of the electrical, thermal, and vibrational properties are conducted on palladium sulfide (PdS) in order to investigate its thermoelectric performance. The tetragonal structure with the space group $P$42/$m$ for PdS is…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-09 Liu-Cheng Chen , Bin-Bin Jiang , Hao Yu , Hong-Jie Pang , Lei Su , Xun Shi , Li-Dong Chen , Xiao-Jia Chen

We present the thermopower of EuCd2P2, a material which exhibits a large resistivity peak with significant magnetic field dependence in the temperature range of 10-25 K. In the same region we observe a highly unusual behavior of the…

Phonon drag may be harnessed for thermoelectric generators and devices. Here, we demonstrate the geometric control of the phonon-drag contribution to the thermopower. In nanometer-thin electrically conducting $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 J. Boy , R. Mitdank , A. Popp , Z. Galazka , S. F. Fischer

The longitudinal thermopower of ultra-high mobility two-dimensional electrons has been measured at both zero magnetic field and at high fields in the compressible metallic state at filling factor $\nu = 3/2$ and the incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 W. E. Chickering , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We present a systematic characterization of fluctuations in submicron Hall devices based on GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron gas heterostructures at temperatures between 1.5 K to 60 K. A large variety of noise spectra, from 1/f to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yongqing Li , Cong Ren , Peng Xiong , Stephan von Molnar , Yuzo Ohno , Hideo Ohno

Magnon-drag is shown to dominate the thermopower of elemental Fe from 2 to 80 K and of elemental Co from 150 to 600 K; it is also shown to contribute to the thermopower of elemental Ni from 50 to 500 K. Two theoretical models are presented…

Detailed experimental studies of the conductance of mesoscopic GaAs devices in the few-mode regime reveal a novel thermal effect: for temperatures up to at least 10 K the measured gate characteristics, i.e. conductance $G$ versus gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Hansen , A. Kristensen , H. Bruus

A polycrystalline sample of the MgB_2 superconductor was investigated by measurements of the electrical resistivity, the thermopower and the thermal conductivity in the temperature range between 1.8K and 300K in zero magnetic field. The…

The adiabatic cristal model is offered. It is shown that springy nuclei oscillations relatively electronic envelops and waves of such oscillations (inherent oscillations and waves) may exist in crystals. The analysis of experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Vdovenkov

We present thermopower $S$ and resistance $R$ measurements on GaAs-based mesoscopic two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) as functions of the electron density $n_s$. At high $n_s$ we observe good agreement between the measured $S$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 Vijay Narayan , Eugene Kogan , Chris Ford , Michael Pepper , Moshe Kaveh , Jonathan Griffiths , Geb Jones , Harvey Beere , Dave Ritchie