Effective power factor and thermoelectric figure of merit

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1449, Issue , 2012, Pages 427-430

  Zabrocki, Knud ^a   Seifert, Wolfgang ^b   Müller, Eckhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective figure of merit; efficiency; temperature and position dependent material

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872978257     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4731587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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