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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2017
General Engineering & Research, L.l.c., San Diego, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Robin Veronica Ihnfeldt, San Diego, CA (US);
Xia Xu, San Diego, CA (US);
Renkun Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Sungho Jin, San Diego, CA (US);
Jianlin Zheng, La Jolla, CA (US);
General Engineering & Research, L.L.C., San Diego, CA (US);
The Regents of The University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to a cooling device which utilizes both thermoelectric and magnetocaloric mechanisms for enhanced cooling applications. Using high thermal conductivity magnetocaloric composites in conjunction with thermoelectric elements acting as thermal switches which are electrically coupled to a magnetization and demagnetization cycle enables the use of larger quantities of magnetocaloric material, and high efficiency solid state cooling can be achieved. Solid state cooling devices are useful for a variety of industrial applications which require cooling, such as, but not limited to cooling of microelectronic devices, cooling on space platforms, etc.