Dispenser-printed planar thick-film thermoelectric energy generators

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Chen, A ^a   Madan, D ^a   Wright, P K ^a   Evans, J W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPOXY COMPOSITE; FIGURES OF MERITS; METAL CONTACTS; P-TYPE; POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATE; POWER DENSITIES; POWER OUT PUT; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

ANTIMONY; BISMUTH; DISPENSERS; POLYIMIDES; THERMOELECTRICITY; THICK FILMS;

THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 80053588457     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/21/10/104006     Document Type: Article

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