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Increasing thermoelectric efficiency: dynamical models unveil microscopic mechanisms

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Dynamical nonlinear systems provide a new approach to the old problem of increasing the efficiency of thermoelectric machines. In this review, we discuss stylized models of classical dynamics, including non-interacting complex molecules in an ergodic billiard, a disordered hard-point gas and an abstract thermoelectric machine. The main focus will be on the physical mechanisms, unveiled by these dynamical models, which lead to high thermoelectric efficiency approaching the Carnot limit.

Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0266

Authors: Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati

Institutions: University of Insubria, National Interuniversity Consortium for the Physical Sciences of Matter, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Affordable and clean energy

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2168385227

FWCI: 1.164

Cites: 21

Cited by: 10

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