Nanowire composite thermoelectric devices

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 7-11

  Abramson, Alexis R ^a   Kim, Woo Chul ^a   Huxtable, Scott T ^a   Yan, Haoquan ^b   Wu, Yiying ^b   Majumdar, Arun ^a   Tien, Chang Lin ^a   Yang, Peidong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite; Nanowires; Thermal conductivity; Thermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OXYGEN; PLASMA ETCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS;

COMPOSITE; CONFORMAL POLYMERS; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; FABRICATION PROCESS; FIGURE OF MERIT; HIGH POWER FACTOR; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MATRIX; MECHANICAL POLISHING; METAL CONTACTS; NANOWIRE COMPOSITES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL GROWTH; OXYGEN PLASMA ETCHING; PARYLENES; SILICON NANOWIRES; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; STRUCTURAL SUPPORT; THERMAL ISOLATION; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; THERMOELECTRICS; TOP SURFACE; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID PROCESS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 41149112710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2002-39237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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