This is the smallest thermolectric cooler ever made, according to the scientists at UCLA that built it. Total active volume is ~1μm3. “We beat the record for the world’s smallest thermoelectric cooler by a factor of more than ten thousand,” according to UCLA physicist Xin Yi Ling It consists of two 100nm thick single-crystal flakes, ...

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