Nonlinear thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions with vibrational coupling
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M. Leijnse,1 M. R. Wegewijs,2,3,4 and K. Flensberg1 1Nano-Science Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark 2Institut für Theoretische Physik A, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany 3Institut für Festkörper-Forschung—Theorie 3, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany 4JARA-Fundamentals of Future Information Technology Received 26 April 2010; revised manuscript received 17 June 2010; published 13 July 2010
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تاریخ انتشار 2010