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MOLECULAR JUNCTION REFRIGERATOR

Peltier cooling at molecular scale

Nature Nanotechnology volume 13, pages 97–99 (2018)Cite this article

Under specific conditions, molecular monolayers dissipate power more than they heat up at one end of a molecular junction, validating theoretical predictions of Peltier cooling.

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Fig. 1: Conventional and molecular-scale Peltier coolers.

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