1. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Illustrations of (a) printing pattern of material on substrate, (b) hybrid TEC after processing into final form, and (c) bulk TEC Figure Legend:

2. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Basic diagram of a TEC and the equivalent thermal resistance circuit of the system Figure Legend:

3. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Breakdown of the total cost of a TEC system Figure Legend:

4. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Pareto frontiers for maximum cooling capacity and minimum cost Figure Legend:

5. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Pareto frontier using bulk materials for the hybrid architecture Figure Legend:

6. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Design variable trends for bulk architecture (color bar represents variable value) Figure Legend:

7. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Design variable trends for hybrid architecture (color bar represents variable value) Figure Legend:

8. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Pareto frontiers for improved hypothetical TE materials in a bulk TEC Figure Legend:

9. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 (a) Minimum cross-sectional area to produce a given Q C and (b) corresponding number of thermocouples of the bulk architecture, and (c) minimum cross-sectional area to produce a given Q C and (d) corresponding number of thermocouples of the hybrid architecture Figure Legend:

10. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 (a) Minimal capital cost at a given Q C for bulk and hybrid architectures, (b) the operating cost, (c) the number of thermocouples, and (d) the heat exchanger characteristic Figure Legend:

11. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Breakdown of capital cost for (a) bulk and (b) hybrid architectures Figure Legend:

12. Date of download: 6/23/2016 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. 2016;8(2):021022-021022-13. doi:10.1115/1.4032637 Minimized operating cost under different cross-sectional area constraints Figure Legend: