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A heated junction

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Resonant photonic structures made of thermoelectric materials can convert light into electricity without wavelength limitations.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the resonant thermoelectric (TE) photodetector and its light-to-heat conversion mechanism.

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  1. Ming Zhou and Zongfu Yu are in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA,

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Zhou, M., Yu, Z. A heated junction. Nature Nanotech 12, 723–724 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.97

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