Modelling of a thin film thermoelectric micro Peltier module

Author

Kandasamy, S. ; Kalantar-zadeh, K. ; Rosengarten, G. ; Wlodarski, W.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., RMIT Univ., Melbourne, Australia

Volume

D

fYear

2004

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

310

Abstract

A micro Peltier cooler/heater module has been modelled. The module consists of n-type bismuth telluride and p-type antimony telluride thermoelectric materials. The commercial software package CFD-ACE+ has been used to implement and analyse the model. A two-dimensional coupled electrical and thermal simulation was performed. This software includes the possibility to incorporate the Peltier effect. The temperature, electric field intensity and wall heat flux distributions were simulated for different applied potentials. The variation in temperature difference with respect to the Seebeck coefficient of the material was calculated and analysed.

Keywords

Peltier effect; Seebeck effect; antimony compounds; bismuth compounds; computational fluid dynamics; power engineering computing; semiconductor thin films; Seebeck coefficient; coupled simulation; electric field intensity; heat flux distributions; micro Peltier cooler; micro Peltier heater; n-type bismuth telluride; p-type antimony telluride; thermal simulation; thermoelectric materials; thin films; Bismuth; Conducting materials; Electronic packaging thermal management; Resistance heating; Semiconductor materials; Software packages; Temperature; Thermal conductivity; Thermoelectricity; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2004. 2004 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8560-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2004.1414931

Filename

1414931