A new model of the thermal amplifier consisting of three electronic reservoirs connected by two energy filters and an electronic conductor with negligible resistance is proposed. The thermal amplifier may have two different connective methods and can be regarded as the equivalent system composed of an energy selective electron (ESE) heat engine and an ESE heat pump. With the help of the theory of the ESE devices operating between two electronic reservoirs, the coefficient of performance and rate of heat-pumping of the thermal amplifier are directly derived. The effects of the center energy levels and the half width (or the half width at the half maximum) of two energy filters on the performance of the thermal amplifier are discussed. The maximum coefficient of performance and rate of heat-pumping are calculated. The optimally operating regions of the thermal amplifier are determined. Moreover, the optimum performance characteristics of the thermal amplifier with two configurations of energy filters are compared.

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工作在最佳状态的热电子隧道放大器的参数选择标准

提出了一种新的热放大器模型，该模型由三个电子蓄水池和一个电阻可忽略不计的电子导体相连，两个能量过滤器连接在一起。热放大器可以有两种不同的连接方式，可以看作是由能量选择性电子（ESE）热机和ESE热泵组成的等效系统。借助在两个电子容器之间运行的 ESE 设备理论，可以直接推导出热放大器的性能系数和热泵速率。讨论了两个能量滤波器的中心能级和半峰宽（或半峰宽）对热放大器性能的影响。计算最大性能系数和热泵速率。确定热放大器的最佳工作区域。此外，比较了具有两种能量过滤器配置的热放大器的最佳性能特性。