Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Processes
Patent
1998-11-13
2000-08-01
Gorgos, Kathryn
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Processes
136203, 136205, 136239, 62 623T, 257 14, H01L 3500
Patent
active
060969644
ABSTRACT:
Thermoelectric elements for use in a thermoelectric device. The thermoelectric elements have a very large number of alternating layers of semiconductor material deposited on a very thin flexible substrate. The layers of semiconductor material alternate between barrier semiconductor material and conducting semiconductor material creating quantum wells within the thin layers of conducting semiconductor material. The conducting semiconductor material is doped to create conducting properties. The substrate preferably should be very thin, a very good thermal and electrical insulator with good thermal stability and strong and flexible. In a preferred embodiment, the thin organic substrate is a thin polyimide film (specifically Kapton.RTM.) coated with an even thinner film of crystalline silicon. The substrate is about 0.3 mills (127 microns) thick. The crystalline silicon layer is about 0.1 micron thick. This embodiment includes on each side of the thin Kapton.RTM. substrate about 3,000 alternating layers of silicon and silicon-germanium, each layer being about 100 .ANG. and the total thickness of the layers being about 30 microns. Preferably, the silicon layer is applied in an amorphous form and heated to about 350.degree. C. to 375.degree. C. to crystallize it. In other preferred embodiments, the substrate material is thin films of other organic materials or thin films of inorganic materials such as silicon.
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Elsner Norbert B.
Ghamaty Saeid
Gorgos Kathryn
Hi-Z Technology, Inc.
Parsons Thomas H
Ross John R.
Russ, III John R.
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