On-chip energy harvesting using thin-film thermoelectric materials

Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-104

  Choday, Sri Harsha ^a   Lu, Chao ^a   Raghunathan, Vijay ^a   Roy, Kaushik ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact Resistance; DC DC Power Converter; Energy Harvesting; On chip; Superlattice; Thermoelectrics; Thin film

Indexed keywords

COOLING APPLICATIONS; DC-DC POWER CONVERTER; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; INTRINSIC PERFORMANCE; ON CHIPS; THERMO-ELECTRIC MATERIALS; THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL; THERMOELECTRICS;

CONTACT RESISTANCE; ENERGY HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION; SUPERLATTICES; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; WASTE HEAT;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84880708480     PISSN: 10652221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEMI-THERM.2013.6526812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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