The study of thermoelectric effect in the nonlinear response regime: the appearance of negative differential thermoelectric resistance and thermoelectric rectifier in DNA

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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Urmia University of Technology, Urmia, Iran

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Sources of renewable energy are a major global concern for researchers. In recent years, the thermoelectric power generation from waste heat has appeared as a green and clean energy competitor. Recently, nonlinear thermoelectric phenomena constitute a new area of research, anticipated to enhance thermoelectric response. Organic thermoelectric materials (TM) has been appeared as superior TMs, since they are non-toxic, eco-friendly, and low cost. Herein, bio-organic materials provide a unique opportunity in developing bio-degradable, flexible and smart TM. In this work, we describe nonlinear phonon-thermoelectric DNA based nano devices, driven by temperature biases. Remarkably, we found that by applying a temperature difference between the source and drain, the sensible electric current is generated. The temperature of the hot thermostat and the temperature bias are considered as a control parameter. By modulating the temperature bias, NDTER phenomenon can be achieved. NDTER is referred to a phenomenon in which the charge current decreases by increasing the temperature bias. Moreover, by fixing the temperature bias between cold and hot reservoirs and varying the temperature of hot reservoir, the charge currents are different for the forward and reverse directions of ∆T. This is what called as a thermoelectric rectification.

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Journal of Research on Many-body Systems
Volume 9, Issue 4 - Serial Number 23
February 2020
Pages 13-24

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  • Receive Date: 17 December 2018
  • Revise Date: 19 August 2019
  • Accept Date: 28 October 2019

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