Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Pages: 1407-1417

Journal: physica status solidi (a) – applications and materials science

Volume number: 210

Issue number: 7

ISSN: 1862-6300

eISSN: 1862-6319

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201228741

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
The compatibility approach enables the description of thermoelectric (TE) effects in terms of intensive state variables. Based on the new concept of a Thomson cooler (using the particular case of a u=s cooler as a demonstration) the authors present practically relevant results about fully self-compatible cooler elements where the compatibility factor s is adjusted locally at any position along the element. By means of a comparison u=s cooler vs. conventional Peltier cooler with (Bi0.5Sb0.5)2Te3 material it is shown that there is a similar self-compatibility effect for different T. Therewith, the paper completes results published in Phys. Rev. B 86, 045202 (2012). (C) 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Harvard Citation style: Seifert, W., Snyder, G., Toberer, E., Goupil, C., Zabrocki, K. and Mueller, E. (2013) The self-compatibility effect in graded thermoelectric cooler elements, physica status solidi (a) – applications and materials science, 210(7), pp. 1407-1417. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201228741

APA Citation style: Seifert, W., Snyder, G., Toberer, E., Goupil, C., Zabrocki, K., & Mueller, E. (2013). The self-compatibility effect in graded thermoelectric cooler elements. physica status solidi (a) – applications and materials science. 210(7), 1407-1417. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201228741