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Thermoelectricity at the gate

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The electrical conductance and the Seebeck coefficient of molecular junction devices can be simultaneously enhanced using a gate electrode.

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Figure 1: Working principle of a three-terminal molecular junction.

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    In the version of this News & Views article previously published, the definition of the figure of merit was incorrect: it should have read ‘ZT = S2GT/κ’. Corrected after print 12 November 2014.

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Neaton, J. Thermoelectricity at the gate. Nature Nanotech 9, 876–877 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.256

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