Seebeck Effect in a Thermocouple

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Thermoelectric phenomena include the relationship between thermal and electrical phenomena in metals and semiconductors. Included among these are the Seebeck, Peltier, and Thomson effects. In the Seebeck effect, a closed circuit consisting of dissimilar conductors produces an emf across contacts maintained at different temperatures. In the simplest case, when the electrical circuit is composed of two different conductors, the system is called a thermopile (or a thermocouple). The value of the thermoelectric power depends only on the temperatures and
of the hot and cold contacts and on the composition of the conductors. For a small temperature range, thermoelectric power
is approximately proportional to the temperature difference,
. The coefficient
is called the Seebeck coefficient or thermoelectric power density. It depends on the conductor materials and the temperature range. Values are given for some coefficients with respect to Pb in the temperature range 0 to 100 °C.
Contributed by: Andrew Tuzhykov (January 2014)
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Published: January 3 2014