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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 90, Issue 3, Pages 1625-1631Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1380996
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A theoretical analysis of single-barrier thermionic emission cooling in semiconducting materials is performed using Fermi-Dirac statistics. Both maximum cooling and coefficient of performance are evaluated. It is shown that the performance of a thermionic refrigerator is governed by the same materials factor as thermoelectric devices. For all known materials, single-barrier thermionic refrigeration is less effective and less efficient than thermoelectric refrigeration. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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