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Silicon microcoolers

Fan, 2002

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There has been an increasing demand for localized cooling and temperature stabilization of microelectronic and optoelectronic devices. Monolithically integrated solid-state microcoolers are an attractive way to achieve compact localized cooling. SiGe is an …
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