TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermosize potentials in semiconductors
AU - Karabetoglu, S.
AU - Sisman, A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/9/5
Y1 - 2017/9/5
N2 - A thermosize junction consists of two different sized structures made using the same material. Classical and quantum thermosize effects (CTSEs and QTSEs), which are opposite to each other, induce a thermosize potential in a thermosize junction. A semi-analytical method is proposed to calculate thermosize potentials in wide ranges of degeneracy and confinement by considering both CTSEs and QTSEs in thermosize junctions made using semiconductors. Dependencies of thermosize potential on temperature, size, and degeneracy are examined. It is shown that a potential difference in millivolt scale can be induced as a combined effect of CTS and QTS. The highest potential is obtained in nondegenerate limit where the full analytical solution is obtained. The model can be used to design semiconductor thermosize devices for a possible experimental verification of CTSEs and QTSEs, which may lead to new nano energy conversion devices.
AB - A thermosize junction consists of two different sized structures made using the same material. Classical and quantum thermosize effects (CTSEs and QTSEs), which are opposite to each other, induce a thermosize potential in a thermosize junction. A semi-analytical method is proposed to calculate thermosize potentials in wide ranges of degeneracy and confinement by considering both CTSEs and QTSEs in thermosize junctions made using semiconductors. Dependencies of thermosize potential on temperature, size, and degeneracy are examined. It is shown that a potential difference in millivolt scale can be induced as a combined effect of CTS and QTS. The highest potential is obtained in nondegenerate limit where the full analytical solution is obtained. The model can be used to design semiconductor thermosize devices for a possible experimental verification of CTSEs and QTSEs, which may lead to new nano energy conversion devices.
KW - Classical thermosize effects
KW - Quantum thermosize effects
KW - Thermosize effects
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021755547&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.06.038
DO - 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.06.038
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021755547
SN - 0375-9601
VL - 381
SP - 2704
EP - 2708
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
IS - 33
ER -