SBIR/STTR Research Award
MULTILAYER QUANTUM WELL LAYER FILM THERMOELECTRICS
Award amount
$600,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1994Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- HI-Z TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- JU3YFG3VLJ29
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS ARE USED IN A VARIETY OF POWER SOURCES AND PELTIER REFRIGERATORS. THEDIMENSIONLESS FIGURE-OF-MERIT (ZT) IS USED AS A MEASURE OF THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE MATERIALS. THE BEST KNOWN MATERIALS HAVE ZTS OF LESS THAN ONE. NEW SOLID STATE THEORY PREDICTS THAT MULTILAYER-QUANTUM WELL FILMS COULD HAVE ZTS GREATER THAN SIX. IN PHASE I SUCH MATERIALS WILL BE PRODUCED BY ALTERNATELY DEPOSITING A QUANTUM WELL LAYER OF A THERMOELECTRIC MATERIAL AND A SUITABLE BARRIER LAYER. EVALUATION OF THESE MATERIALS WILL CONSIST OF MEASUREMENT OF SEEBECK COEFFICIENT, RESISTIVITY, AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, AS WELL AS A DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF Z. TRANSMISSILN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE THE OTHER MATERIALCHARACTERISTCS.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Biofueled Thermoelectric Cookstove
- Biofueled Thermoelectric Cookstove
- Renewable Energy Forward Osmosis Desalination System
- Radioisotope Power Supply
- SBIR Phase I: Ultra Low-Cost Manufacturing Thermoelectric Module
Research funding history
59 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1988–2017). Reported award amounts total $16,069,425. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration