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This research demonstrates significant thermoelectric performance improvements in a supramolecular device, highlighting topological end states and their implications.
Supramolecular device (SMD) with topological end states and a noncovalent junction is rarely investigated but deemed promising for thermoelectric (TE) applications. We designed a new kind of SMD based on the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains, and calculated TE properties of it using the non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) method. By scaling TE performance under different optimization conditions, we found the best scenario. Our result shows that the existing topological end states indeed give rise to a large value of power factor, rendering a dimensionless ffgure-of-merit ZT above 2 in a broad range of chemical potential (doping). Moreover, by imposing the system to various perturbations including end state shift, structural change and disorder, we found that the SMD system possesses a prominent switch effect, further optimizing its performance for TE applications.
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