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New physical principles of contact thermoelectric cooling

Yu. G. Gurevich, G. N. Logvinov, O. Yu. Titov, J. Giraldo

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0202081

Abstract

We suggest a new approach to the theory of the contact thermoelectric cooling (Peltier effect). The metal-metal, metal-n-type semiconductor, metal-p-type semiconductor, p-n junction contacts are analyzed. Both degenerate and non-degenerate electron and hole gases are considered. The role of recombination in the contact cooling effect is discussed by the first time.

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