THERMOELECTRIC CONVERTER BASED ON IRREGULAR SOLID-STATE SUPERLATTICE Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC H01L35/00 

FIELD: thermoelectric converters.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to thermoelectric converters. The thermoelectric converter contains a working area made in the form of a multilayer irregular superlattice based on a conductor-dielectric heterostructure containing conductive layers of quantum wells and dielectric barrier layers separating the layers of quantum wells. Material of the barrier layers and the thicknesses of the quantum well layers are selected to ensure the conductivity of the superlattice in the transverse direction, at which the main quantum levels of the charge carriers are in resonance, with the reduction of the phonon part of the thermal conductivity.

EFFECT: increased efficiency of energy conversion.

2 cl, 2 dwg