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Bilayer excitons in two-dimensional nanostructures for greatly enhanced thermoelectric efficiency

Wu et al., 2014

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Wu K
Rademaker L
Zaanen J
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Physical Review Applied

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Currently, a major nanotechnological challenge is to design thermoelectric devices that have a high figure of merit. To that end, we propose to use bilayer excitons in two- dimensional nanostructures. Bilayer-exciton systems are shown to have an improved …
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