Thermal transport in nanostructured solid-state cooling devices

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 108-114

  Li, Deyu ^a   Huxtable, Scott T ^b   Abramson, Alexis R ^c   Majumdar, Arun ^d,e  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SILICONES; SUPERLATTICES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BOUNDARY SCATTERING; CRYSTALLINE IMPERFECTIONS; PELTIER EFFECTS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENTS;

SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER; NANOSTRUCTURE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT;

EID: 15044350997     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1839588     Document Type: Article

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