Diffusion theory of electrical contact resistance of "thermoelectric superlattice metal" couple

2022/07/10 by P. V. Gorskyi, Gorskyi, P. V.
Engineering · Materials Science · #Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices #Composite Material Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Thermal properties of materials

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.05065

openalex publication_date 2022/07/10 · openalex created_date 2022/07/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The paper proposes a strict diffusion theory of the electrical contact resistance of a thermoelectric superlattice (TES) - metal couple.The limits of the contact resistance for traditional thermoeletric materials with parabolic band spectrum and for superlattices described by Fivaz model are estimated.

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