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Analysis of optothermionic refrigeration based on semiconductor heterojunction

Han, P ; Jin, KJ ; Zhou, YL ; Wang, X ; Ma, ZS ; Ren, SF ; Mal'shukov, AG and Chao, Koung-An LU (2006) In Applied Physics Reviews 99(7).
Abstract
We have examined the theory of optothermionic refrigeration combining the ideas of laser cooling and thermionic cooling [Mal'shukov and Chao, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5570 (2001)] and its estimation on thermal energy extraction by using self-consistent calculations with the drift-diffusion model in this paper. Both the Auger and the Shockley-Read-Hall dissipation processes are considered. For GaAs/AlGaAs systems with various impurity concentrations and different widths of quantum well, it is found that the optothermionic cooler can extract thermal energy at a rate as much as 10 W/cm(2). The information to perform optothermionic refrigeration in real devices have also been provided. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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  author       = {{Han, P and Jin, KJ and Zhou, YL and Wang, X and Ma, ZS and Ren, SF and Mal'shukov, AG and Chao, Koung-An}},
  issn         = {{1931-9401}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  publisher    = {{American Institute of Physics (AIP)}},
  series       = {{Applied Physics Reviews}},
  title        = {{Analysis of optothermionic refrigeration based on semiconductor heterojunction}},
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  doi          = {{10.1063/1.2188249}},
  volume       = {{99}},
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