title: Thermoelectric effect in an Aharonov-Bohm ring with an embedded quantum dot.
abstract: Thermoelectric effect is studied in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer with an embedded quantum dot (QD) in the Coulomb blockade regime. The electrical conductance, electron thermal conductance, thermopower, and thermoelectric figure-of-merit are calculated by using the Keldysh Green's function method. It is found that the figure-of-merit ZT of the QD ring may be quite high due to the Fano effect originated from the quantum interference effect. Moreover, the thermoelectric efficiency is sensitive to the magnitude of the dot-lead and inter-lead coupling strengthes. The effect of intradot Coulomb repulsion on ZT is significant in the weak-coupling regime, and then large ZT values can be obtained at rather high temperature.
authors.affiliation: College of Engineering, Bohai University, Jinzhou 121013, China. chifeng@semi.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: Xiao-Dong
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Kai-Cheng
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Zhang