SBIR Phase I: High Performance Cooling Devices through Wafer Scale Manufacturing

SBIR 第一阶段：通过晶圆级制造实现高性能冷却设备

• 批准号: 0637734
• 负责人: Andrew Miner
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Romny Scientific, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0637734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Performance; Cooling; Devices

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project proposes a new manufacturing methodology to create thermoelectric coolers able to deliver levels of performance that cannot be achieved with traditional manufacturing techniques. This work will provide the proof of concept studies establishing the composition and methodology of forming these materials by a technique that allows high volume manufacturablility Thermoelectric materials with appropriate thermophysical properties and of an appropriate scale will be created and tested. Additionally, for commercial viability enabled by volume manufacturing, delivery methods will be modeled and evaluated. The thermoelectric architecture proposed in this work is key to realizing the often touted but yet unrealized societal benefits of thermoelectric cooling and power generation. These include: (a) reduction in ozone depleting chemicals by the transition from vapor compression cooling to thermoelectric solid state cooling; (b) reduction in energy consumption and more efficient use of available energy by widespread use of high performance thermoelectric power generation from waste heat; and (c) broad improvements in general quality of life by high performance compact coolers that allow continued advancement of products in the biomedical, microelectronics, and optoelectronics industries.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目提出了一种新的制造方法，以创造能够提供传统制造技术无法实现的性能水平的热电冷却器。这项工作将提供概念研究的证明，通过一种允许大批量制造的技术来建立这些材料的组成和方法。将创建和测试具有适当热物理特性和适当规模的热电材料。此外，为了实现批量生产的商业可行性，将对交付方法进行建模和评估。在这项工作中提出的热电结构是实现热电冷却和发电经常被吹捧但尚未实现的社会效益的关键。这些措施包括：(a)通过从蒸汽压缩冷却过渡到热电固态冷却来减少消耗臭氧的化学物质；(b)通过广泛使用利用废热的高性能热电发电，减少能源消耗和更有效地利用现有能源；(c)通过高性能紧凑型冷却器广泛改善一般生活质量，使生物医学、微电子和光电子行业的产品不断进步。