Company History and Evolution

March 2021The site has been updated. More than 1300 different TEC models are now available. These coolers form a basic set of standard modules. The standard set can be expanded many times by varying the TE pellets spacing, substrates material, their configuration and coating. This gives rise to a huge collection of related models capable of satisfying the most sophisticated customer requirements.
March 2019Bureau Veritas Certification recertified that the Thermion’s quality management system (QMS) meets the requirements of the QMS standard ISO 9001-2015. Certificate No: UA229202
March 2016Bureau Veritas Certification certified that the Thermion’s quality management system (QMS) meets the requirements of the QMC standard ISO 9001-2015. Certificate No: UA228101/1
February 2014Thermion Company presents its products at SPIE Photonics West 2014 exhibition in San Francisco, CA, USA
March 2013Bureau Veritas Certification certified that the Thermion’s quality management system (QMS) meets the requirements of the QMS standard ISO 9001-2008.
April 2012Thermion introduces a new line of high efficient linear cascade modules having advantage of identical (or near identical) top and bottom substrate dimensions and greatly enlarged ΔT value. These TECs are ideal for thermal management of oblong electronic components.
2012The Chapter 18 " Application of Thermoelectrics for Thermal Management of High Power Microelectronics", is contributed to Thermoelectrics Handbook: Thermoelectrics and its Energy Harvesting (ed. D.M. Rowe) Boca Raton, Fl, CRC Press
April 2012To provide exact identification of Thermion's product and its single-meaning discernment at the market, Thermion updates numbering codes of its product: the symbol "T" is added to the serial code as an indication of the manufacturer's name
September 2007The site has been updated: The section “Product Reliability” is supplemented with Reliability Report
September 2007Thermion is a host for 5-th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT’2007, Odessa, Ukraine)
July 2006Thermion incorporates RoHS demand in its manufacturing. Now on, all Thermion’s coolers are RoHS compliant in full accordance with the Directive 2002/95/EC on restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. For the products whose application is exempt under RoHS, the use of 183°C PbSn eutectic is possible on request.
2006The Chapter 58 "Thermoelectric Cooling of Electro-Optic Components" is contributed to Thermoelectrics Handbook: Macro to Nano (ed. D.M. Rowe) Boca Raton, Fl, CRC Press
August 2005The membership in American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is granted to director of the Company
Jule 2004An invited lecture "Advanced Thermoelectric Micro Coolers" is presented to 23-rd International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT'2004), Adelaide, Australia
August 2003An invited lecture "Advances in Development of Thermoelectric Modules for Cooling Electro-Optic Components" is presented at the 22-nd International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT'2003), La Grande Motte, France
October 2002The MB series of cascade TECs with enlarged cold side surface is developed. The series is ideal for low-temperature cooling of planar sizable electro-optic components (CCDs, multi-element matrixes)
October 2002The ML series of linear single-stage and multi-stage TECs is developed and put into production. The series is destined for cooling linear heat sources (semiconductor laser arrays, rectangular micro chips)
August 2002Thermion participates in the exhibition in Long-Beach, CA, USA, during 21-st International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT'2002)
June 2002MC04 series of cascade TECs is extended to cover TE pellet lengths down to 0.3 and 0.2 mm.
September 2001Thermion participates in the exhibition in Freiburg, Germany, during 6-th European Workshop on Thermoelectrics
June 2001Novel short-legged TECs with cooling power density up to 80 W/cm2 are developed.
March-December 2000Design study of low temperature cascade TEC for cooling IR focal plain array to 120 K is performed on the request of the Institut dAstrophysique Spatiale, France, within the program of mineralogical survey of Mars
June 1999The concept of the cascade TEC with branched-powered upper stages is launched and successfully implemented
November 1998The development of the cascade TECs based on TMC04 series is started. The pioneer cooler 2MC04-039-15 for cooling X-ray detector is developed and put into mass production.
March-November 1998The prototype of advanced thermoelectric system for temperature control of a powerful laser diode with 8W heat dissipation is developed for Alcatel, France.

October 1997 -

May 1998

Custom made stripe-like coolers for cooling "smart structures" (shape memory wires) are developed for the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
June 1997Thermion's coolers 1MC06-018-15 went for a ride to Mars within the framework of Mars Pathfinder Mission (the coolers are supplied through Russian company RMT, Ltd)
June 1997Novel miniature TECs with diamond substrates for cooling high power density opto-electronic components are developed in cooperation with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA.
December 1996The first version of Thermion's web site
August 1995MC10 series of multi-stage TECs is developed and put into production
June 1995Director of Thermion is elected as an Academician of the International Thermoelectric Academy
June 1995MC04 series of single-stage TECs is developed and put into production
1994The MS series of super miniature TECs destined for cooling semiconductor laser diodes is developed in cooperation with EDO Corporation/Barnes Engineering Division, USA
October 1994The "Microtep" is reorganized into the "Thermion Company”
1990MC06 series of single-stage and multi-stage TECs is developed and put into production
November 1990R&D company "Microtep" is founded on the basis of scientific group of Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration