In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

Three-terminal coherent conductors are able to perform as quantum thermocouples when
the heat absorbed from one terminal is transformed into useful power in the other two …

In a multiterminal device the (electronic) heat and charge currents can follow different paths.
In this paper we introduce and analyze a class of multiterminal devices where this property …

We study nonlinear transport effects on the maximum efficiency and power for both inelastic
and elastic thermoelectric generators. The former device refers to phonon-assisted hopping …

Decades of research on thermoelectrics stimulated by the fact that nano-and meso-scale
thermoelectric transport could yield higher energy conversion efficiency and output power …

We propose a near-field inelastic thermoelectric heat engine where quantum dots are used
to effectively rectify the charge flow of photocarriers. The device converts near-field heat …

The energy efficiency and power of a quantum three-terminal thermoelectric device are
studied by considering elastic tunneling through a quantum dot. Facilitated by the three …

We study a thermoelectric ratchet consisting of an array of disordered nanowires arranged in
parallel on top of an insulating substrate and contacted asymmetrically to two electrodes …

The thermodynamic performance and optimization of a three-terminal quantum dot nano-
device consisting of two capacitively coupled quantum dots connected to electron reservoirs …

We study experimentally the cooling of a mm-thick, heat-spreading metal plate of O (10 cm
2) area, which is heated locally by an embedded heat source with area O (1 cm 2). A liquid …