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Seebeck effect in dilute two-dimensional electron systems: temperature dependencies of diffusion and phonon-drag thermoelectric powers
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Considering screeening of electron scattering interactions in terms of the finite-temperature STLS theory and solving the linearized Boltzmann equation (with no appeal to a relaxation time approximation), we present a theoretical analysis of the low-temperature Seebeck effect in two-dimensional semiconductors with dilute electron densities. We find that the temperature ($T$) dependencies of the diffusion and phonon-drag thermoelectric powers ($S_d$ and $S_g$) can no longer be described by the conventional simple power-laws. As temperature increases, $|S_d|/T$ decreases when $T\gtrsim 0.1 \epsilon_F$ ($\epsilon_F$ is the Fermi energy), while $|S_g|$ first increases and then falls, resulting a peak located at a temperature between Bloch-Gr\"uneisen temperature and $\epsilon_F$.<br />Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1106.1262
- Document Type :
- Working Paper