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Thin-film thermoelectric cooling and heating devices for DNA genomic and proteomic chips, thermo-optical switching circuits, and IR tags
Venkatasubramanian, R. (2007). Thin-film thermoelectric cooling and heating devices for DNA genomic and proteomic chips, thermo-optical switching circuits, and IR tags. (U.S. Patent No. 7164077). http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7164077
A thermoelectric cooling and heating device including a
substrate, a plurality of thermoelectric elements arranged on one
side of the substrate and configured to perform at least one of
selective heating and cooling such that each thermoelectric element
includes a thermoelectric material, a Peltier contact contacting
the thermoelectric material and forming under electrical current
flow at least one of a heated junction and a cooled junction, and
electrodes configured to provide current through the thermoelectric
material and the Peltier contact. As such, the thermoelectric
cooling and heating device selectively biases the thermoelectric
elements to provide on one side of the thermolectric device a grid
of localized heated or cooled junctions.