title: One-dimensional hard-point gas as a thermoelectric engine.
abstract: We demonstrate the possibility to build a thermoelectric engine using a one-dimensional gas of molecules with unequal masses and hard-point interaction. Most importantly, we show that the efficiency of this engine is determined by a parameter YT which is different from the well known figure of merit ZT . Even though the efficiency of this particular model is low, our results shed light on the problem and open the possibility to build efficient thermoelectric engines.
authors.affiliation: Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
authors.forename: Jiao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Casati
authors.forename: Tomaz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Prosen
authors.forename: C-H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lai