gelato-nanocoolers
GELATO aims at designing highly efficient thermionic cooling nano-devices. It is motivated by the urgent technological need to control Joule heating in nanoelectronics in a context of energy shortage
Fig.1: a) LDOS (arb. unit) of the quantum cascade cooler (QCC) calculated by NEGF. Horizontal and vertical arrows show the resonant tunneling and thermionic effects respectively. The green solid line represents the potential energy profile;