Effective electrical resistance due to current-induced heat flow in thermoelectric generators

• Pedro Castrillo ^[1] ; José Miguel Salgado ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Valladolid

     Universidad de Valladolid

     Valladolid, España

     
• Localización: Proceedings of the 2013 Spanish Conference on Electron Devices / Héctor García (aut.), Helena Castán Lanaspa (aut.), 2013, ISBN 9781467346665
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • In this work, the operation of thermoelectric generators is analyzed within the framework of a circuital model. It is found that electric current-induced modification of the difference temperature gives rise to an effective electrical resistance. This effective resistance depends on thermal conductivities and has to be taken into account in the parameter extraction procedure.