Eutectic Gallium-Indium Based Thermoelectrics in Tunnelling Junctions Comprising Self-Assembled Monolayers

This thesis is based on a new EGaIn - based thermoelectric set-up with high flexibility and extreme capabilities. Self - assembled monolayers have been measured for many years using numerous different measurement platforms to determine transport properties of variousmolecules. Charge transport in SAMs can happen through tunnelling and hopping. In tunnelling, an electron is transferred between energy levels across energy barriers in the scattering zone while hopping transport is a stepwise process mediated by the redox levels of the linker molecules. Tunnelling junctions of SAMs have been extensively studied using EGaIn as a top electrode contact and it is therefore interesting to use EGaIn as a top electrode to study thermoelectrics and compute the seebeck coefficient.