TY - JOUR
T1 - Peculiarities of thermoelectric cooling in p-n structures
AU - Lashkevych, I.
AU - Angeles Fragoso, O.
AU - Gurevich, Yu G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The authors thank C.Terrero-Escalante for useful discussions. Authors are grateful to CONACYT (México) for partial financial support. One of the authors (I. Lashkevych) is grateful to CINVESTAV-I.P.N. for financial support.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - The basic physical peculiarities of the phenomenon of thermoelectric cooling in p-n structures by an electric current are investigated in the linear approach. It is proved that, for an adequate research of such structures in the general case, a multi-temperature approximation is required. The multi-temperature approximation means that each of the quasi-particle subsystems (electrons, holes, phonons) is characterized by its own temperature. Also, a criterion is found for applying the one-temperature approximation. The most interesting particular cases are studied, explaining the conditions for each case.
AB - The basic physical peculiarities of the phenomenon of thermoelectric cooling in p-n structures by an electric current are investigated in the linear approach. It is proved that, for an adequate research of such structures in the general case, a multi-temperature approximation is required. The multi-temperature approximation means that each of the quasi-particle subsystems (electrons, holes, phonons) is characterized by its own temperature. Also, a criterion is found for applying the one-temperature approximation. The most interesting particular cases are studied, explaining the conditions for each case.
KW - Temperatures of quasi-particles
KW - Thermal transport
KW - Thermoelectric cooling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=63949085489&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10765-008-0543-5
DO - 10.1007/s10765-008-0543-5
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0195-928X
VL - 30
SP - 635
EP - 647
JO - International Journal of Thermophysics
JF - International Journal of Thermophysics
IS - 2
ER -