Low-frequency characteristics of thin-film multijunction thermal voltage converters

1998 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Avramov-Zamurovic ◽  
N.M. Oldham ◽  
M.E. Parker ◽  
B.C. Waltrip
2009 ◽  
Vol 105 (12) ◽  
pp. 124504 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Rumyantsev ◽  
Sung Hun Jin ◽  
M. S. Shur ◽  
Mun-Soo Park

2012 ◽  
Vol 1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Maznev

ABSTRACTThe onset of size effects in phonon-mediated thermal transport along a thin film at temperatures comparable or greater than the Debye temperature is analyzed theoretically. Assuming a quadratic frequency dependence of phonon relaxation rates in the low-frequency limit, a simple closed-form formula for the reduction of the in-plane thermal conductivity of thin films is derived. The effect scales as the square root of the film thickness, which leads to the prediction of measurable size-effects even at “macroscopic” distances ~100 μm. However, this prediction needs to be corrected to account for the deviation from the ω−2 dependence of phonon lifetimes at sub-THz frequencies due to the transition from Landau-Rumer to Akhiezer mechanism of phonon dissipation.


1999 ◽  
Vol 598 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. V. Necliudov ◽  
D. J. Gundlach ◽  
T. N. Jackson ◽  
S. L. Rumyantsev ◽  
M. S. Shur

ABSTRACTWe studied the low frequency noise in top-contact pentacene Thin Film Transistors (TFTs). The relative spectral noise density of the drain current fluctuations SI/I2 had a form of 1/f noise in the measured frequency range 1Hz - 3.5kHz.Our studies of the noise dependencies on the gate-source VGS and drain-source VDS voltages showed that the dependencies differed from those observed for conducting polymers and resembled those reported for crystalline Si n-MOSFETs.To compare the device noise level with those of other devices and materials, we extracted the Hooge parameter α. In order to calculate the total number of carriers we used a model simulating the device DC characteristics, similar to that for amorphous Si TFTs. The extracted Hooge parameter was 0.04. For an organic material this is an extremely small value, which is three orders of magnitude smaller that the Hooge parameter values reported for conducting polymers and only several times higher than the values for amorphous Si TFTs.


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