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

这个小型企业创新研究(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达到的性能水平的热电制冷器。这项工作将提供概念研究的证据，确定通过一种技术形成这些材料的组成和方法，该技术允许大量可制造、具有适当热物理性能和适当规模的热电材料将被创造和测试。此外，对于通过批量制造实现的商业可行性，将对交付方法进行建模和评估。这项工作中提出的热电架构是实现热电制冷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品；(B)通过广泛使用利用废热的高性能热电发电来减少能源消耗和更有效地利用可用能源；以及(C)通过高性能紧凑型冷却器广泛改善一般生活质量，从而使生物医学、微电子和光电子行业的产品不断进步。

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.