Large external ΔT and cooling power densities in thin-film Bi 2Te3-superlattice thermoelectric cooling devices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Bulman, G E ^a   Siivola, E ^a,b   Shen, B ^a   Venkatasubramanian, R ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Nextneme Thermal Solutions ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI2TE3 SUPERLATTICES; COOLING POWER DENSITIES; HEAT PUMPING CAPACITY; THERMOELECTRIC ELEMENTS;

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; HEAT RESISTANCE; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; SEEBECK EFFECT; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 33748964840     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2353805     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. H. Bottner, The 24th International Conference on Thermoelectrics, ICT Symposium Proceedings, Clemson, 2005 (IEEE, New York, 2005), IEEE Catalog No. 05TH8854C, p. 1.
2. G. Zeng, A. Shakouri, C. LaBounty, G. Robinson, E. Croke, P. Abrahams, X. Fan, H. Reese, and J. E. Bowers, Electron. Lett. 35, 2146 (1999).
3. X. Fan, G. Zeng, C. LaBounty, and J. E. Bowers, Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 1580 (2001).
4. L. D. Hicks and M. S. Dresselhaus, Phys. Rev. B 47, 12727 (1993).
5. R. Venkatasubramanian, E. Siivola, T. Colpitts, and B. O'Quinn, Nature (London) 413, 597 (2001).
6. Z. Bian and A. Shakouri, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 053115 (2005).
7. Y. Zhang, G. Zeng, R. Singh, J. Christofferson, E. Croke, J. E. Bowers, and A. Shakouri, The 21st International Conference on Thermoelectrics, ICT Symposium Proceedings, Long Beach, 2002 (IEEE, New York, 2002), p. 329.
8. R. Venkatasubramanian, E. Siivola, and B. C. O'Quinn, in Thermoelectrics Handbook, edited by D. M. Rowe (CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2006), pp. 49-1-49-15.
9. R. J. Buist, in CRC Handbook of Thermoelectrics, edited by D. M. Rowe (CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 1995), p. 144.
10. MATLAB, The MathWorks, Inc, Natick, MA, 2005.
11. R. Venkatasubramanian, T. Colpitts, and B. O'Quinn, Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1104 (1999).
12. M. V. Vedernikov and V. L. Kuznetsov, CRC Handbook of Thermoelectrics (Ref. 9), p. 609.
13. H. J. Goldsmid, Applications of Thermoelectricity (Wiley, New York, 1960), p. 11.
14. H. Scherrer and S. Scherrer, Ref. 9, p. 218.