The effect of barrier shape on thermionic refrigerator performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6035, Issue , 2006, Pages

  O'Dwyer, M F ^a   Humphrey, T E ^b   Lewis, R A ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Chao, K A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cooling; Refrigeration; Thermionic

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION; SUPERLATTICES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

REFRIGERATOR COEFFICIENT; THERMIONIC;

REFRIGERATORS;

EID: 33645158978     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.638394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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