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Influence of the concentration distribution of weakly degenerate carriers on the efficiency of an arm of a thermocouple

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The one-dimensional boundary problem on determination of a stationary temperature field in an adiabatically isolated one-dimensional arm of a thermocouple has been numerically solved. Calculations were carried out for two regimes of operation of the thermocouple, one which was characterized by a maximum temperature drop and the other by a maximum refrigerating capacity. The method of quantum statistics of carriers was used in the calculations. Homogeneous and inhomogeneous arms with different carrier-concentration distributions were considered. It is shown that a linear distribution cannot be considered as optimum.

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  1. Orel State University, 95 Komsomol’skaya Str., Orel, 302026, Russia

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 167–172, January–February, 2006.

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Markov, O.I. Influence of the concentration distribution of weakly degenerate carriers on the efficiency of an arm of a thermocouple. J Eng Phys Thermophys 79, 173–178 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-006-0082-5

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