SEMICONDUCTOR THERMOELEMENTS and THERMOELECTRIC COOLING J for Semiconductors of the sdemy of Sclences) © INFOSEARCH LIMITED LONDONTkKa95015S3 (957 Bf -8, a0 /x/62. 59. ge Fale sf ‘Teanalated from Rassias A. F JOFFE, Polaprovodaikorye Termocleneaty, 103 pp, 1986 A. FIOFFE, L. S. STIL’BANS, E. K. JORDANISHVILI, ‘and T. S. STAVITSKAYA ‘Termoclektricheskoe Okblazhdenie, 110 pp., 1956 Both books originally published by the Poblishing House of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow-Leningrad. Revised and supplemented by Prof. A. F. Ioffe for the English edition. ‘Translated by A. Gelbtuch. Edited by H. J. Goldsmid. Set on Vari-Typs la Marsh. Copyright 1957 by Infosearch Lid. All Rights Reserved ‘This book or any part thereof must not be reproduced in any form without the writen permission of the publisher. Printed in Orv Britain by Tri kithe OMteer Lit CONTENTS Part 1 SEMICONDUCTOR THERMOELEMENTS APACE APTN 1, INTRODUCTION 1.1 Disoovery of thermoelectric phenomena 18 Thomson's thermodynamic relationships 1) fiatiattoat theory 14 Caloulotion formulae 1) Reperiental facts THPRMORLECTRIC GENERATORS 1s 25 33 a 2 ™ “ 8 a2 82 83CONTENTS Part 2 THERMOELECTRIC COOLING INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. THEORY OF THERMOELECTRIC COOLING 1.1 Thermodynamic theory 1.2 Conditions for maxinum efficiency of the thermoelements 1.3. Taking account of the Thomson heat in the energy balance of the themoclements 1.4 Malistege bette LS. Principles of calculations for thermoelectric batteri CHAPTER 2, EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE THERMO- ELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SEMICONDUCTORS sstigating the themoelectric properties of tigations of the thermo- clectric properties of semiconductors 2.3 Comparison of the theory of thermoelectric cooling with CHAPTER 3. APPLICATIONS OF THERMOELECTRIC COOLING 3.1 Domentic refrigerators 3.2 Other applications of thermoelectric cooling 5.3 Data from foreign literatare CONCLUSIONS 95 m us ne 19 130 136 rg 188 158 165 190 182 109 Part 1 SEMICONDUCTOR THERMOELEMENTS