Science news articles about 'thermoelectric coolers'

... , making electrically pumped room-temperature and thermoelectrically-cooled Terahertz semiconductor lasers has been a major ... at temperatures easily achievable with commercially available thermoelectric coolers," says Belkin. "Further, there is the potential of increasing ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips become more powerful, they also become hotter. Nearly all the power that flows into a chip comes out of it as waste heat, and that heat hurts the performance of the ...

... reduction of electric conductivity, which is not the case for conventional thermoelectric materials," he says. Collaborating with Wu on this work ... device is used to cool other devices or materials. "Thermoelectric coolers have advantages over conventional refrigeration technology in that they have no ...

... and photo detectors and also in electronic systems that include field-effect transistors and solid-state thermoelectric coolers and generators and magnetic technologies that include ...