Publications

A thermoelectric (TE) energy scavenging technique is proposed to recover the energy from the waste heat of power amplifier (PA) transistors.

Electronic structure calculations predict Ag(3)AuTe(2) to be a small-band-gap semiconductor.

The thermoelectric properties of the pure and doped half-Heusler compounds FeVSb and FeNbSb are reported. The electrical resistivities are between 0.2 and 20 m Omega cm at room temperature.

The Tl/sub 9/XQ/sub 6/-class of compounds is related to the binary compound Tl/sub 5/Te/sub 3/. It is crystallizing in the tetragonal space group I4/mcm.

We report the first application of a thermoelectrically cooled, distributed-feedback quantum-cascade laser for continuous spectroscopic monitoring of CO in ambient air at a wavelength of 4.6 mum.

Active and passive infrared thermographies, techniques extensively used in NDE, can also be used to monitor mechanical tests of composite materials.

Proposals have been made to use the properties of ferromagnetic substances near the Curie point for constructing thermomagnetic current generators.

This is an invited brief survey for publication in the "Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Thermal Analysis," to be published as several volumes of Thermochimica Acta.

Understanding the reliability attributes of surface mount attachments requires, among other things, insight into the thermomechanical response of solder joints during temperature cycling.

A thermomechanical model for the mechanism of rapid degradation of AlGaAs based high power laser bars (808 nm) is presented.