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Thermoelectric Generators

Lee, 2016

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3503124860397066617
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Lee H
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homepages. wmich. edu/~ leehs/ME539/Thermoelectric% 20Contact% 20Resistances. pdf.[Accessed 15 february 2017]

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In 1821, Thomas J. Seebeck discovered that an electromotive force or potential difference could be produced by a circuit made from two dissimilar wires when one junction was heated [1]. This is called the Seebeck effect. In 1834, Jean Peltier discovered the reverse …
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