Time dependent thermoelectric performance of a bundle of silicon nanowires for on-chip cooler applications

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Gang ^a   Zhang, Qing Xin ^a   Kavitha, Devi ^a   Lo, Guo Qiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE; CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; COOLING TEMPERATURE; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; LARGE SYSTEM; ON CHIPS; SHORT RESPONSE TIME; SILICON NANOWIRES; THERMOELECTRIC COOLER; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; TIME DEPENDENT;

NANOWIRES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956158445     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3273869     Document Type: Article

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