Surface-plasmon coupled nonequilibrium thermoelectric refrigerators and power generators

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-87

  Yang, Ronggui ^a   Narayanaswamy, Arvind ^a   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonequilibrium; Power generator; Refrigerator; Surface plasmon; Thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; HEAT CONDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHONONS; REFRIGERATORS;

POWER GENERATORS; SURFACE PLASMON; THERMAL ENERGY COUPLING; THERMOELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS;

THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 20444378469     PISSN: 15461955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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