Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Final Report: STIR: High Performance Thermoelectric Cryo-coolers based on II-VI Low Dimensional Structures Report Title This program performed material design for high-performance thermoelectric (TE) cooler with a figure-of-merit ZT > 3. The cooler is fabricated from HgCdTe using a low dimensional superlattice structure. The TE coolers can o...

Title of Document: CONVECTION AND FLOW BOILING IN MICROGAPS AND POROUS FOAM COOLERS Dae Whan Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Directed By: Professor Avram Bar-Cohen Professor Bongtae Han Department of Mechanical Engineering An open and foam-filled microgap cooler, providing direct liquid cooling for a simulated electronic/photonic component and which eliminates the problematic thermal resistance...

Patrick Abraham John E. Bowers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California–Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California 93106-9560 Abstract. Active refrigeration of optoelectronic components through the use of monolithically grown thin-film solid-state coolers based on III-V materials is proposed and investigated. Enhanced cooling power compared to the thermoelectric e...