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The efficiency of thermal energy conversion into electricity based on the thermovoltaic effect has been studied. Experiments were performed on samarium sulfide (SmS) samples containing a region doped with excess samarium up to Sm1.04S. The conversion efficiency increases with time from 17 to 36% due to a decrease in the amount of absorbed thermal energy at unchanged power of the generated electric energy.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Egorov, V.V. Kaminskii, M.M. Kazanin, S.M. Solov’ev, A.V. Golubkov, 2015, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 8, pp. 50–54.
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Egorov, V.M., Kaminskii, V.V., Kazanin, M.M. et al. The efficiency of thermal energy conversion into electricity by means of the thermovoltaic effect. Tech. Phys. Lett. 41, 381–382 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785015040227
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