From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling Date of download: 12/19/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling J. Heat Transfer. 2008;130(1):014502-014502-3. doi:10.1115/1.2780186 Figure Legend: The impact of the electrical interface resistance on the pulsed cooling performance of microthermoelectric coolers of length of 100μm
From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling Date of download: 12/19/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling J. Heat Transfer. 2008;130(1):014502-014502-3. doi:10.1115/1.2780186 Figure Legend: Comparison between the temporal temperature profiles experimentally observed and predicted in the present study for the model macrocooler. tret is the time from the pulse initiation to return to the steady-state cold-junction temperature.
From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling Date of download: 12/19/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling J. Heat Transfer. 2008;130(1):014502-014502-3. doi:10.1115/1.2780186 Figure Legend: Extra temperature drop due to pulsed cooling as a function of the current ratio. Imin,ss is the current necessary to achieve the minimum steady-state cold-junction temperature. The symbols are experimental data from Snyder .
From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling Date of download: 12/19/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling J. Heat Transfer. 2008;130(1):014502-014502-3. doi:10.1115/1.2780186 Figure Legend: Predicted temporal temperature profiles in the cold junction of the model macrocooler subjected to a current pulse of amplitude of 3.5Imin,ss. The simulation results are shown for three different values of the electrical interface resistance.
From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling Date of download: 12/19/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Impact of Interface Resistance on Pulsed Thermoelectric Cooling J. Heat Transfer. 2008;130(1):014502-014502-3. doi:10.1115/1.2780186 Figure Legend: Schematic diagram of a freestanding thermoelectric element subjected to a pulsed current. A region near the interface at the cold junction is enlarged to show differential elements used for the finite volume method.