TITLE:
Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of a Material Consisting of Particles in Dependency on the Parameters of a Material
AUTHORS:
F. V. Kharlamov, V. F. Kharlamov
KEYWORDS:
Thermoelectric Effect, Energy Transformation, Semiconductor, Particles
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.2 No.10,
September
30,
2014
ABSTRACT: The properties of a ball-shaped semiconductor particles and metal particles with a semiconductor thin film on the surface thereof are established. So the dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit of a material consisting of a large number of these particles is equal to 10 - 100.