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CENTER FOR NONLINEAR AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Como - Italy
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Providing a sustainable supply of energy to the world’s population will become a major societal problem for the 21st century as fossil fuel supplies decrease and world demand increases.
Thermoelectric phenomena are expected to play an increasingly important role in meeting the energy challenge of the future.
…a newly emerging field of low-dimensional thermoelectricity, enabled by materials nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Dresselhaus et al: Adv. Mater. 2007
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A central issue in physics
What are the fundamental limits that thermodynamics imposes on the efficiency of
thermal machines?
This problem is becoming more and more practically relevant in the future society due to the need of providing a sustainable supply of energy and to strong concerns about the environmental impact of the combustion of fossil fuels
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Sadi Carnot, Reflexions Sur la Puissance Motrice duFeu et Sur Les Machines Propres a` Developper Cette Puissance (Bachelier, Paris, 1824).
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In a cycle between two reservoirs at temperatures T1and T2 (T1 >T2), the efficiency , is bounded by the so-called Carnot efficiency
Sadi Carnot, Reflexions Sur la Puissance Motrice duFeu et Sur Les Machines Propres a` Developper Cette Puissance (Bachelier, Paris, 1824).
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In a cycle between two reservoirs at temperatures T1and T2 (T1 >T2), the efficiency , is bounded by the so-called Carnot efficiency
Sadi Carnot, Reflexions Sur la Puissance Motrice duFeu et Sur Les Machines Propres a` Developper Cette Puissance (Bachelier, Paris, 1824).
The Carnot efficiency is obtained for a quasistatic transformation which requires infinite time and therefore the extracted power, in this limit, reduces tozero.
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Efficiency at maximum power
Curzon -Ahlborn upper bound
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Can we control the heat current?
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Can we control the heat current?
Towards thermal diodes and thermal transistors
M. Terraneo, M. Peyrard and G.C. p.r.l. 88, (2002)
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QUESTION:
Can one derive the Fourier law of heatconduction from dynamical equations of motion without any statistical assumptions?
Normal transport
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J. B. FOURIER
1808 - Attempt to explain the thermal gradientinside the earth
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‘It seems there is no problem in modernphysics for which there are one recordas many false starts and as manytheories which overlook some essentialfeatures as in the problem of thethermal conductivity of non conductingcrystals’
R. E. PEIERLS
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REMARK:
Randonmnes is an essential ingredientof thermal conductivity
deterministically random systems are tacitly required by the transport theory
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THE DING-A -LING MODEL
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THE DING-A -LING MODEL
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Nature, 7 june 1984
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Plane waves solutions
Dispersionrelations
Phonon band
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INTERNAL TEMPERATURE PROFILE
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In nonlinear systems the position of the banddepends on the temperature
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p.r.l. 88, (2002)
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For uniform mass distribution, thermal conduction issymmetric
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All measurements showed that a higher thermalconductance was observed when heat flowedfrom the high-mass region to the low -massregion
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A wave diode: asymmetric wave propagation in nonlinear systems
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Layered photonic( phononic) crystal
A wave diode: asymmetric wave propagation in nonlinear systems
G.C., S. Lepri, prl. 106, 164101 (2011)
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The transmission is large for the left incoming packet
G.C., S. Lepri, prl. 106, 164101 (2011)
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POWERFUL HEAT
How to increase efficiency of thermopower generation and refrigeration?
A dynamical systems approach
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Volta effect: an electric potential difference is developed by the contact of two different metals at the same temperature.
A.Volta (Como)
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In 1822, the Estonian–German physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck discovered that if heat is applied across the junctionof two wires, a current is generated.
A.Volta (Como) Seebeck
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Thermoelectricity concerns the conversion oftemperatures differencies into electrical potentialor viceversa
It can be used to perform useful electrical workor to pump heat from cold to hot place, thusperforming refrigeration
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Abram Ioffe, 1950s : doped semiconductors have large thermoelectric effect
The initial excitement about semiconductors in 1950was due to their promise, not in electronics but inrefrigeration. The discovery that semiconductors can act as efficient heat pumps led to expectations of environmentally benign solid state homerefrigerators and power generators
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During this 1960–1995 period, the thermoelectric field received little attention from the worldwide scientific research community.
Nevertheless, the thermoelectric industry grew slowly and steadily, by finding niche applications:
space missionslaboratory equipmentmedical applications
where cost and energy efficiency were not as important as energy availability, reliability, predictability, and the quiet operation of equipment.
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Thermoelectric devices provide on board power tooperate radio signal trasmitters, on board computers,gyros and navigational systems, spectrometers and many other scientific instruments.
These power generating systems can operateunattended, maintenance free, for many years
NASA uses thermoelectric because key advantages include high reliability, small size and no noise.
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Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) is the only technology (so far) capable of providing electrical power fordeep-space missions including:- Voyagers I and II, -Galileo, Cassini, and the New Horizons mission to Pluto .
(The RTG is the black, cylindrical finned object at lower left).
New Horizon spacecraftto Pluto
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Thermoelectric coolers/heaters by “Amerigon“(USA)
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Efforts are underway to replace alternator incars with a thermoelectric generator mountedon the exhaust stream
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to produce electricity rather than using drive train power and an alternator. More drive train power is available to move the vehicle and electricity is still available. Plan is to improve overall fuel economy by 10% and aims to reach production in the 2014
Vehicle waste heat is redirected to a thermoelectric generator
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New funding. In the early 1990s DARPA and the Office of Naval Research initiated support for basic thermoelectric materials research:thermoelectric coolers are used for night vision, sensors, guidance systems, etc. and even modest efficiency gains might make TE air conditioning practical in submarines (TE cooling is quiet) and enhance the existing DoD applications.
USS DOLPHINAGSS 555
–Test for Silent
Running
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The suitability of a thermoelectric material for energy conversion or electronic refrigeration is evaluated by
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The ZT figure of merit
The suitability of a thermoelectric material for energy conversion or electronic refrigeration is evaluated by
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In linear response regime:
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In five decades the ZT of semiconductors has increased only marginally, from about 0.6 to 1
A. Majumdar Science 303, 777(2004)
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A ZT value > 3 would make solid –state homerefrigerators economically competitive with compressor-based refrigerators
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Metals are poor thermoelectric materials because of low Seebeck coefficient and large electroniccontribution to thermal conductivity.
A ZT value > 3 would make solid –state homerefrigerators economically competitive with compressor-based refrigerators
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Metals are poor thermoelectric materials because of low Seebeck coefficient and large electroniccontribution to thermal conductivity.
Insulators have large Seebeck coefficient but have too few carriers which result in large electrical resistivity
A ZT value > 3 would make solid –state homerefrigerators economically competitive with compressor-based refrigerators
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The only thermodynamic restrictions to the Onsagercoefficients come from the positivity of the entropyproduction, which is a quadratic form in the
generalized forces:
and
The only restriction:
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ZT diverges iff the Onsager matrix is ill- conditionedthat is the condition number:
diverges
In such case the system is singular:
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Consider a two dimensional gas with circularscatterers (Lorentz gas model)
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Consider a two dimensional gas with circularscatterers (Lorentz gas model)
ZT =1.5
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1-d non interacting gas
Particles current:
energy distribution of particles from reservoir
transmission prob. for a particle with energyto transit from one hand to the other.
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Assuming Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for particles in the baths:
Particles current:
Heat current:
(Injection rates)
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If transmission is possible only inside a tiny energywindow
then
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Carnot efficiency
Delta-like energy-filtering mechanism;
Mahan et al (1996), Humphrey et al (2002)
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Interacting systemConsider a one dimensional gas of elasticallyinteracting particles with unequal masses:
m M
G.C. , Lei Wang, T. Prosen: J. of Stat. Mech. (2009)
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There is no sign of narrowing of D(E) with increasingsystem size L
A different mechanism for increase of ZT ! ?
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A new challenge:Break time-reversal symmetry
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Onsager
A new challenge:Break time-reversal symmetry
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Onsager
however
A new challenge:Break time-reversal symmetry
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Maximum efficiency and efficiency at maximun powerdepend on two parameter x and y
(x=1 implies y=ZT)
The second, asymmetry parameter, x offers an additional freedom for efficiency of thermoelectricdevices
G. Benenti, K. Saito and G.C. prl 106 230602 (2011)
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G. Benenti, K. Saito and G.C. prl 106 230602 (2011)
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For non interacting systems S(B) = S(-B)due to symmetry properties of the scattering matrix
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For non interacting systems S(B) = S(-B)due to symmetry properties of the scattering matrix
Accurate numerical simulations of two terminal interactingdynamical systems which violate time-reversal symmetrysistematically failed to find a non symmetric thermopower S(B) ≠ S(-B) why ?
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For non interacting systems S(B) = S(-B)due to symmetry properties of the scattering matrix
Accurate numerical simulations of two terminal interactingdynamical systems which violate time-reversal symmetrysistematically failed to find a non symmetric thermopower S(B) ≠ S(-B) why ?
Inelastic scattering introduced e.g. by a, selfconsistent, third terminal, leads to non-symmetric thermopower
K. Saito, G. Benenti, G.C., T. Prosen PRB 84 201306 (2011)
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For non interacting systems S(B) = S(-B)due to symmetry properties of the scattering matrix
Accurate numerical simulations of two terminal interactingdynamical systems which violate time-reversal symmetryhave shown a non symmetric thermopower S(B) ≠ S(-B)
Inelastic scattering introduced e.g. by a, selfconsistent, third terminal, leads to non-symmetric thermopower
K. Saito, G. Benenti, G.C., T. Prosen PRB 84 201306 (2011)
How to increase asymmetry x ? ?
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-A large number of complex materials are now available
At issue are some fundamental scientific challenges, which could be overcome by deeper understanding of
heat and charge transport.
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Thermal diodes and wave diodes
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