An electronic cooling device with multiple energy selective tunnels

Guozhen Su, Yuzhuo Pan, Yanchao Zhang, Tien-Mo Shih and Jincan Chen

Energy, 2016, vol. 113, issue C, 723-727

Abstract: A new model of the electronic cooling device with multiple energy selective tunnels is proposed. By connecting four electron reservoirs, a cold reservoir, a hot reservoir, and two reservoirs with the ambient temperature, via four suitably tuned energy selective tunnels to form a closed circuit, a steady current of electrons is driven and cooling is achieved by continuously extracting high-energy electrons from, and simultaneously injecting low energy electrons into, the cold reservoir. The performances of the cooling device varying with the resonant levels and half widths of energy selective tunnels are explored, and the optimal configuration of the cooling device is established.

Keywords: Electronic cooling; Hot electron; Energy selective tunnel; Coefficient of performance; Cooling power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544216310015
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:113:y:2016:i:c:p:723-727

DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.07.077

Access Statistics for this article

Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser

More articles in Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().