Heating and cooling in semiconductor structures by an electric current

G. N. Logvinov; J. E. Velázquez; I. M. Lashkevych; Yu G. Gurevich

doi:10.1063/1.2345033

Heating and cooling in semiconductor structures by an electric current

G. N. Logvinov, J. E. Velázquez, I. M. Lashkevych, Yu G. Gurevich

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A comprehensive study of the mechanisms of heating and cooling originated by an electrical current in semiconductor devices is reported. The authors studied the Peltier, Joule, and Thomson phenomena self-consistently and found that the magnitudes of all of them were commensurable. A new formulation and interpretation of the Thomson effect are offered. The main conclusion of the present work is that the thermal analysis of any semiconductor device under real working conditions demands the inclusion of all heating and cooling mechanisms simultaneously.

Original language	English
Article number	092118
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	89
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2345033
State	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes

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