- The Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and Technology
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Optical properties of carbon nanotubes and nanographene
- Defects and disorder in carbon nanotubes
- Roles of shape and space in electronic properties of carbon nanomaterials
- Identification and separation of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes
- Size-dependent phase transitions and phase reversal at the nanoscale
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy of nanostructures
- Harmonic detection of resonance methods for micro- and nanocantilevers: Theory and selected applications
- Microspectroscopy as a tool to discriminate nanomolecular cellular alterations in biomedical research
- Holographic laser processing for three-dimensional photonic lattices
- Nanoanalysis of materials using near-field Raman spectroscopy
- Scanning SQUID microscope study of vortex states and phases in superconducting mesoscopic dots, antidots, and other structures
- New phenomena in the nanospace of single-wall carbon nanotubes
- Thermopower of low-dimensional structures: The effect of electron–phonon coupling
- ZnO wide-bandgap semiconductor nanostructures: Growth, characterization and applications
- Selective self-assembly of semi-metal straight and branched nanorods on inert substrates
- Nanostructured crystals: An unprecedented class of hybrid semiconductors exhibiting structure-induced quantum confinement effect and systematically tunable properties
- Nanoscale Ge1−xMnxTe ferromagnetic semiconductors
- Synthesis, characterization and environmental applications of nanocrystalline zeolites
- Unusual properties of nanoscale ferroelectrics
- Magnetic properties of nanoparticles
- Structural, electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of carbon-fullerene-based polymers
- Magnetic nanowires: Fabrication and characterization
- Iron-oxide nanostructures with emphasis on nanowires
- DNA-based self-assembly of nanostructures
- Properties and potential of protein–DNA conjugates for analytic applications
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article examines the effect of electron-phonon coupling on the thermopower of low-dimensional structures. It begins with a review of the theoretical approaches and the basic concepts regarding phonon drag under different transport regimes in two- and one-dimensional systems. It then considers the thermopower of two-dimensional semiconductor structures, focusing on phonon drag in semi-classical two-dimensional electron gases confined in semiconductor nanostructures. It also analyzes the influence of phonon drag on the thermopower of semiconductor quantum wires and describes the phonon-drag thermopower of doped single-wall carbon nanotubes. The article compares theory and experiment in order to demonstrate the role of phonon-drag and electron-phonon coupling in the thermopower in two and one dimensions.
Keywords: electron-phonon coupling, thermopower, low-dimensional structures, phonon drag, transport regimes, two-dimensional electron gases, semiconductor nanostructures, semiconductor quantum wires, single-wall carbon nanotubes
Department of Materials Science, University of Patras
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- The Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and Technology
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Optical properties of carbon nanotubes and nanographene
- Defects and disorder in carbon nanotubes
- Roles of shape and space in electronic properties of carbon nanomaterials
- Identification and separation of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes
- Size-dependent phase transitions and phase reversal at the nanoscale
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy of nanostructures
- Harmonic detection of resonance methods for micro- and nanocantilevers: Theory and selected applications
- Microspectroscopy as a tool to discriminate nanomolecular cellular alterations in biomedical research
- Holographic laser processing for three-dimensional photonic lattices
- Nanoanalysis of materials using near-field Raman spectroscopy
- Scanning SQUID microscope study of vortex states and phases in superconducting mesoscopic dots, antidots, and other structures
- New phenomena in the nanospace of single-wall carbon nanotubes
- Thermopower of low-dimensional structures: The effect of electron–phonon coupling
- ZnO wide-bandgap semiconductor nanostructures: Growth, characterization and applications
- Selective self-assembly of semi-metal straight and branched nanorods on inert substrates
- Nanostructured crystals: An unprecedented class of hybrid semiconductors exhibiting structure-induced quantum confinement effect and systematically tunable properties
- Nanoscale Ge1−xMnxTe ferromagnetic semiconductors
- Synthesis, characterization and environmental applications of nanocrystalline zeolites
- Unusual properties of nanoscale ferroelectrics
- Magnetic properties of nanoparticles
- Structural, electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of carbon-fullerene-based polymers
- Magnetic nanowires: Fabrication and characterization
- Iron-oxide nanostructures with emphasis on nanowires
- DNA-based self-assembly of nanostructures
- Properties and potential of protein–DNA conjugates for analytic applications
- Subject Index
