DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF EFFICIENT NANOSCALE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Province of Asturias (NUTS ES120); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 121,000; EU co-financing EUR 96,800 (co-financing rate 80%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): THE DEMETER PROJECT AIMS TO DESIGN AND MODEL NEW EFFICIENT THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES ON THE NANOSCALE. This INVESTIGATION is part of the SAFE, Efficient and Clean Energy Challenge IDENTIFICATED IN PEICTI 2013-2016 (Third Challenge) and also IN H2020. The project is divided into three parts or packages of work. IN THE FIRST PART WE WILL STUDY VERTICAL DEVICES. THESE INCLUDE VAN DER WAALS HETEROSTRUCTURES — TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIAL APPLICATIONS UNITED BY VAN DER WAALS FORCES-, AND HYBRID STRUCTURES OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL AND FULERENE MATERIALS. WE PROPOSE THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS TO DESIGN SCALABLE AND INTEGRABLE THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES OF NANOMETRICO SIZE. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO LOOK FOR NANOSTRUCTURES THAT HAVE INTERFACES BETWEEN DIFFERENT MATERIALS THAT SUPPRESS THE THERMAL CONDUCTANCE OF PHONONS AND THAT HAVE HIGH AND ASYMMETRIC DENSITIES OF STATES AT FERMI LEVEL THAT INCREASE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE AND SEEBECK COEFFICIENT. THE SYNERGISTIC COMBINATION OF BOTH PHENOMENA WOULD INCREASE THE FIGURE OF MERIT AND THEREFORE THE EFFICIENCY THERMOELECTRICA. We also want to search here new two-dimensional MATERIALS AND EXPLOTE EFFECTS OF QUANTICAL INTERFERENCE AND THE FREEDOM OF THE SPIN MEDIANING THE USE OF FULERENS variants. IN THE SECOND PART we will study MOLECULARY UNIONS in HORIZONTAL geometries. THE MATERIAL CHOSEN IN THIS CASE FOR THE ELECTRODES WILL BE GRAPHENE. WE WILL INCORPORATE THE MOLECULES THROUGH COVALENT BONDS TO THE EDGES BY MEANS OF CARBON CHEMISTRY OR PEPTIDES. WE WILL ALSO USE VAN DER WAALS COUPLINGS THROUGH FLAT AND WIDE ANCHOR GROUPS. THE GOAL IN THIS PART IS TO EXPLORE CHARGE AND ESPIN EFFECTS BASED ON EXTERNAL PARAMETERS SUCH AS DOOR VOLTAGE, POLARISATION VOLTAGE AND TEMPERATURE. WE EXPECT A REDUCTION IN THE THERMAL CONDUCT OF PHONONS, ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE OF FISISORBIDAS MOLECULES, SO WE WILL EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THESE FACTORS ON THE THERMOELECTRIC EFFICIENCY OF THE DEVICES. WE ALSO WANT TO INVESTIGATE UNIONS FORMED BY MAGNETIC MOLECULES AND [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on designing and modeling efficient nanoscale thermoelectric devices, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 121,000. It operates in Asturias, Spain, from January 2016 to December 2018, as part of the SAFE Energy Challenge. Suggested technology pillar: simulation. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.