Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric – Electric power generator
Patent
1998-03-16
2000-05-09
Gorgos, Kathryn
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
Electric power generator
136203, 257 15, H01L 3530
Patent
active
060606568
ABSTRACT:
A superlattice structure for use in thermoelectric power generation systems includes m layers of a first one of Silicon and Antimony doped Silicon-Germanium alternating with n layers of Silicon-Germanium which provides a superlattice structure having a thermoelectric figure of merit which increases with increasing temperature above the maximum thermoelectric figure of merit achievable for bulk SiGe alloys.
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Cronin Stephen B.
Dresselhaus Mildred S.
Harman Theodore C.
Koga Takaaki
Sun Xiangzhong
Gorgos Kathryn
Parsons Thomas H
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