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Samsung and US researchers say a new technology called thermoelectric cooling can make refrigerators 70% more energy efficient, and it could also enable them to harvest the power they need from their ambient environment.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins APL have developed a solid state thermoelectric cooling material that can be built semiconductor technology.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and Samsung Electronics have developed a solid state thermoelectric cooling material that can be built in volume with semiconductor process technology. The CHESS technology is the result of ten years of APL research, initially for national security applications for the DAPRA programme in the US, but it has also been used to provide a cooling sensation in prosthetic limbs. “In addition to advancing next-generation tactile systems, prosthetics and human-machine interfaces, this opens the door to scalable energy-harvesting technologies for applications ranging from computers to spacecraft — cooling capabilities that weren’t feasible with older bulkier thermoelectric devices.”
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