Beat the deviations in estimating maximum power of thermoelectric modules

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2725-2729

  Gao, Junling ^a,b   Chen, Min ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Numerical analysis; power measurement; short circuit currents; thermoelectric devices; voltage measurement

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION METHOD; MAXIMUM POWER; NON-LINEAR NUMERICAL MODEL; SWITCH MODES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMO-ELECTRIC MODULES; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES;

ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; THERMOELECTRICITY; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84884416101     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2261591     Document Type: Article

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