Electronic Refrigeration |
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adiabatic antimony antimony alloys Appl atoms ature band edge Bi₂ bismuth telluride Brillouin zone carrier concentration carrier mobilities charge carriers coefficient of performance components conductor copper cross-section area crystal density doping effective mass electric current electric field electrical conductivity electrical resistivity elements energy gap equal equation Ettingshausen Fermi energy figure of merit function Goldsmid H J heat flow heat sink heat source holes impurities insulation interface Ioffe isothermal lattice thermal conductivity length low temperatures magnetic field maximum cooling power measurements melting metal Nernst optimised optimum p-type parameter Peltier effect phonons Phys potential difference ratio sample scattering Seebeck coefficient semiconductor shown in figure soldered technique temperature gradient thermal conductivity thermo thermocouple thermoelectric cooling thermoelectric figure thermoelectric material thermoelectric module thermoelectric properties thermoelectric refrigeration thermoelements thermomagnetic figure thermomagnetic refrigeration transport transverse trigonal direction wave vector zero µV K¹ әт