• 文献标题:   Graphene nanoribbon thermopower as a tool for molecular spectroscopy
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ROSALES L, NUNEZ CD, PACHECO M, LATGE A, ORELLANA PA
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0021-8979 EI 1089-7550
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.4826266
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

In this work, we study thermoelectric properties of graphene nanoribbons with side-attached organic molecules. By adopting a single-band tight binding Hamiltonian and the Green's function formalism, we calculated the transmission and Seebeck coefficients for different hybrid systems. The corresponding thermopower profiles exhibit a series of sharp peaks at the eigenenergies of the isolated molecule indicating that the system can be proposed as a molecular thermo-device. We have studied the effects of the temperature on the thermoelectric response, and considered random configurations of molecule distributions, in different disorder regimes. We have found that the main features of the thermopower are robust under temperature and disorder. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.