Multilayer Thermionic Refrigerator and Generator

Preprint

19 January 1998

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9801187

Abstract

A new method of refrigeration is proposed. Cooling is obtained by thermionic emission of electrons over periodic barriers in a multilayer geometry. These could be either Schottky barriers between metals and semiconductors or else barriers in a semiconductor superlattice. The same device is an efficient power generator. A complete theory is provided.

Keywords

THERMIONIC REFRIGERATOR
MULTILAYER THERMIONIC
POWER GENERATOR
SEMICONDUCTOR
BARRIERS
GEOMETRY
COOLING

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Version 1, 1998-01-19, ArXiv
Published version: Journal of Applied Physics, 83 (9), 4683.

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