Demonstration of efficient Thomson cooler by electronic phase transition.


Journal

Nature materials
ISSN: 1476-4660
Titre abrégé: Nat Mater
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101155473

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Date de publication:
29 Oct 2024
Historique:
received: 27 04 2024
accepted: 01 10 2024
medline: 30 10 2024
pubmed: 30 10 2024
entrez: 30 10 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

In the 1850s, Lord Kelvin predicted the existence of a thermoelectric cooling effect inside a whole material (the Thomson effect) according to thermodynamics

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pubmed: 39472755
doi: 10.1038/s41563-024-02039-z
pii: 10.1038/s41563-024-02039-z
doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

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© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Zhiwei Chen (Z)

Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Xinyue Zhang (X)

Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Shuxian Zhang (S)

Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Jun Luo (J)

Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Yanzhong Pei (Y)

Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. yanzhong@tongji.edu.cn.

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