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Optimization of the operating conditions of thermocouples allowing for nonlinearity of the temperature distribution

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It is shown that the Peltier heat, previously regarded as a purely contact characteristic, must be included in the equation describing the heat-flux balance in the volume of a sample (simplified Ioffe-Stil’bans equation). Analytical expressions for the temperature distribution in a loaded thermocouple, which describe the main deviations from the linear distribution, are derived by a self-consistent calculation allowing for a temperature dependence of the Peltier heat. Equations which extend the Ioffe relations to the case of large temperature differentials and large heat fluxes are obtained for the efficiency of a thermocouple.

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  1. A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. V. Ordin

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Fiz. Tekh. Poluprovodn. 31, 1269–1271 (October 1997)

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Ordin, S.V. Optimization of the operating conditions of thermocouples allowing for nonlinearity of the temperature distribution. Semiconductors 31, 1091–1093 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1187031

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