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A method has been developed to inject mobile charges at the surface of organic molecular crystals, and the DC transport of field-induced holes has been measured at the surface of pentacene single crystals. To minimize damage to the soft and…
In the ongoing search for innovative thermoelectric (TE) materials with superior TE performance globally, we aim to investigate the possible use of half-Heusler alloy CoHfSi in TE applications. We analyzed the structure stability,…
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We present a study of Nernst and Seebeck coefficients of the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn$_{5}$. Below 18 K, concomitant with a field-dependent Seebeck coefficient, a large sub-linear Nernst signal emerges with a magnitude…
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The bottleneck in modern thermoelectric power generation and cooling is the low energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials. The detrimental effects of lattice phonons on performance can be mitigated, but achieving a high…
The Seebeck effect and the Nernst effect, which reflect the appearance of electric fields along $x$-axis and along $y$-axis ($E_{x}$ and $E_{y}$), respectively, induced by the thermal gradient along $x$-axis, are studied in the QGP at an…
Superconducting radio frequency accelerating cavities made with different material layers, such as copper, Nb or Nb3Sn, are susceptible to thermoelectric effects due to differences in Seebeck coefficients between the metals. A temperature…
Thermoelectric materials create an electric potential when subject to a temperature gradient and vice versa hence they can be used to harvest waste heat into electricity and in thermal management applications. However, finding highly…
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