Semiconductor component

US6891278B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Infineon Technologies AG · DE

Inventors

• Gustav Muller · Regensburg, DE
• Axel Schubert · Munich, DE
• Karl-Heinz Schlereth · Burglengenfeld, DE
• Harald Bottner · Glückstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 20, 2003
• Grant date: May 10, 2005
• Expiry date: Aug 20, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S257/93
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A semiconductor component has at least one Peltier element and at least one thermogenerator element that are thermally coupled to one another via a coupling device. By virtue of the thermal coupling of the Peltier element and the thermogenerator element through the coupling device, it is possible to use the Peltier element to cool a microstructure, in particular an optoelectronic component (e.g. a laser diode). Efficient temperature regulation and efficient operation of an optoelectronic component are thus possible.