• 文献标题:   Nanostructured graphene for energy harvesting
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LOPEZSUAREZ M, RURALI R, GAMMAITONI L, ABADAL G
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Autonoma Barcelona
  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.84.161401
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Engineered nonlinearities have been shown to play an important role in increasing the efficiency of energy harvesting devices. Macroscopic prototypes using this approach have been demonstrated recently [F. Cottone, H. Vocca, and L. Gammaitoni, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 080601 (2009).] Here, in order to implement such a scheme at the nanoscale, we propose a simple device which is based on strained nanostructured graphene and discuss how it can respond to many energy sources that, although having a low intensity, are freely available, such as ambient vibrations or thermal noise. We discuss in some detail the case of thermal fluctuations harvesting in the steady-state nonequilibrium regime and of ambient vibrations.