Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures ( IF 2.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-18 , DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2021.114976 Zhi Ping Niu 1 , Meng Meng Wu 1
Due to the promising applications in energy harvesting, quantum heat engines at the nanoscale has attracted much interest in the past decades. Here the thermoelectric properties of a silicene based antiferromagnetic/ferromagnetic junction are investigated. The maximum power and the efficiency at maximum power can be modulated by the gate voltage , and be comparable to or even better than that of recent proposals based on two terminal graphene system. In addition, because of the specific spin and valley dependent band-matching tunneling mechanism, there exists a plateau in the versus curves, which is sensitive to and vanishes at high . This indicates the silicene junction can operate as a highly efficient quantum heat engine.
中文翻译:
在基于硅烯的反铁磁/铁磁结中以最大功率运行的高效量子热机
由于在能量收集方面的有前景的应用,纳米级的量子热机在过去几十年中引起了人们的极大兴趣。这里研究了基于硅的反铁磁/铁磁结的热电特性。最大功率 和最大功率时的效率 可以通过栅极电压调制 ,并且可以与基于两端石墨烯系统的近期提案相媲美甚至更好。此外,由于特定的自旋和谷值相关的带匹配隧穿机制,在 相对 对曲线敏感 并消失在高处 . 这表明硅烯结可以作为高效的量子热机运行。