Performance analysis of a thermoelectric cooler with a corrugated architecture

Applied Energy - Tập 147 - Trang 184-191 - 2015
Opeoluwa Owoyele1, Scott Ferguson1, Brendan T. O’Connor1
1North Carolina State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 911 Oval Dr., Raleigh, NC 27695, United States

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