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EPL Association, European Physical Society Letters, 6(85), p. 60010, 2009

DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/85/60010

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Thermoelectric efficiency at maximum power in a quantum dot

Journal article published in 2009 by Massimiliano Esposito ORCID, Katja K. Lindenberg, Christian Van Den Broeck
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Abstract

We identify the operational conditions for maximum power of a nanothermoelectric engine consisting of a single quantum level embedded between two leads at different temperatures and chemical potentials. The corresponding thermodynamic efficiency agrees with the Curzon-Ahlborn expression up to quadratic terms in the gradients, supporting the thesis of universality beyond linear response. Copyright © 2009 EPLA. ; SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published