Nanowire arrays for thermoelectric devices

Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference

Volumn 2003, Issue , 2003, Pages 101-104

  Kim, Woo C ^a   Abramson, Alexis R ^b   Huxtable, Scott T ^c   Majumdar, Arun ^a   Wu, Yiying ^a   Trahey, Lynn ^a   Yang, Peidong ^a   Stacy, Angelica ^a   Sands, Timothy D ^d   Gronsky, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanowire; Peltier effect; Thermoelectric device

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PELTIER EFFECT; SILICON; THERMOCOUPLES;

NANOWIRES; SEEBACK COEFFICIENTS;

THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 11144353671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ht2003-47320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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