SCANNING PROBE METHODS FOR THERMAL AND THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS

Annual Review of Heat Transfer

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages 211-258

  Borca Tasciuc, Theodorian ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOMETERS; TOPOGRAPHY;

PROBE METHODS; PROPERTY CHARACTERIZATIONS; SCANNING MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PROBES; SEEBECK; THERMAL; THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION; THERMAL PROBE; THERMISTOR PROBE; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

SEEBECK COEFFICIENT;

EID: 84924853531     PISSN: 10490787     EISSN: 23750294     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1615/AnnualRevHeatTransfer.v16.80     Document Type: Chapter

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