Thermoelectric devices using semiconductor quantum wells
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 76 (3) , 1899-1901
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.357715
Abstract
The efficiency of thermoelectric devices are analyzed for a superlattice of semiconductor quantum wells. It is assumed that the quantum wells are the thermoelectric active elements, and the layers between conduct only heat. It is shown that the efficiency of the device depends on the property of both layers.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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