Flexible thin-film planar peltier microcooler

• Author(s): Gonçalves, L. M. ; Couto, Carlos ; Correia, J. H. ; Alpuim, P. ; Min, Gao ; Rowe, D. M.
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/5523
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Peltier; Microcooler; Flexible; Generator; Thermoelectric
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The present work reports on the fabrication and characterization of the first planar Peltier microcooler on a flexible substrate. The microcooler was fabricated on flexible Kapton© polyimide substrate, 25 μm in thickness, using Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 thermoelectric elements, and was deposited by thermal co-evaporation.