Improvement of thermoelectric efficiency of the polyaniline molecular junction by the doping process

Abstract

Thermoelectric properties of a polyaniline molecular junction with face centered cubic electrodes are investigated using the Green function formalism in a linear response regime in the presence of the doping process. Doping causes the increase of thermopower and the figure of merit (ZT) and the decrease of electrical conductance as found experimentally in the work of Li et al., (Synthetic. Metals, 2010, 160, 1153–1158). We also find that the ZT increases with the molecular length in short polyanilines. [Golsanamlou et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2000, 35, 3523].