Study of Heat Dissipation Mechanism in Nanoscale MOSFETs Using BDE Model

In this chapter, we report the nano-heat transport in metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET). We propose a ballistic-diffusive model (BDE) to inquire the thermal stability of nanoscale MOSFET’s. To study the mechanism of scattering in the interface oxide-semiconductor, we have included the specularity parameter defined as the probability of reflection at boundary. In addition, we have studied the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) in nanofilms we found that ETC depend with the size of nanomaterial. The finite element method (FEM) is used to resolve the results for a 10 nm channel length. The results prove that our proposed model is close to those results obtained by the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE)

The enerMENA Meteorological Network – Solar Radiation Measurements in the MENA Region

International audienceFor solar resource assessment of solar power plants and adjustment of satellite data, high accuracy measurement data of irradiance and ancillary meteorological data is needed. For the MENA region (Middle East and Northern Africa), which is of high importance for concentrating solar power applications, so far merely 2 publicly available ground measurement stations existed (BSRN network). This gap has been filled by ten stations in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan. In this publication the data quality is analyzed by evaluating data completeness and the cleanliness of irradiance sensors in comparison for all of the stations. The pyrheliometers have an average cleanliness of 99.2 % for week-daily cleaning. This is a 5 times higher effort than for Rotating Shadowband Irradiometer (RSI) stations which even have a slightly higher average cleanliness of 99.3 % for weekly cleaning. Furthermore, RSI stations show a data completeness of 99.4 % compared to 93.6 % at the stations equipped with thermal sensors. The results of this analysis are used to derive conclusions concerning instrument choice and are hence also applicable to other solar radiation measurements outside the enerMENA network. It turns out that RSIs are the more reliable and robust choice in cases of high soiling, rare station visits for cleaning and maintenance, as usual in desert sites. Furthermore, annual direct normal and global horizontal irradiation as well as average meteorological parameters are calculated for all of the stations

SOFC modelling considering radiation heat transfer

In this study, the influence of radiation heat transfer within a planar SOFC is investigated. The numerical model is made by performing two-dimension mathematical model describing mass, momentum and heat transport phenomena coupled with electrochemical reactions. The finite volume method is used to solve the governing equations. Compared with literature results, the simulations show that radiation reduces temperature gradients and has a significant effect on enhancing heat transfer within the SOFC and counter balancing thermal dissipation induced by activation, concentration and ohmic polarisations. Thus, it must be included for an accurate model