《THERMOELECTRICITY:AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES》

1.General survey1

1.1. Introduction1

1.2. Seebeck and Peltier4

1.3. The Kelvin（or Thomson）relations6

1.4. Thomson heat and thermoelectric power9

1.5. Estimates of magnitude of thermoelectric prop-erties11

1.5.1Metals12

1.5.2 Semiconductors15

1.6. Non-equilibrium or phonon-drag effects19

1.7. The influence of impurities and electron scattering24

2.The Boltzmann equation and electron scattering37

2.1.The Drude-Lorentz model37

2.2. The Boltzmann equation39

2.3.The scattering problem47

2.3.1 Phonon drag47

2.3.2 High temperatures48

2.3.3 Low temperatures in pure metals50

2.3.4 Electron-scattering by “normal”impu-rities61

2.3.5 Scattering by“abnormal”impurities:“giant”thermoelectric powers69

2.4.Conclusion83

3.Phonon-drag and phonon scattering86

3.1.Basic features86

3.2.Phonon-drag thermoelectric power91

3.3.Phonon-drag and phonon scattering at very lowtemperatures93

3.4.Phonon-drag at high temperatures100

3.5.Conclusions101

4.A final miscellany103

4.1.Thermoelectricity when more than one contri-bution is involved103

4.1.1 Resultant S with multiple sources of elec-tron scattering106

4.1.2 Addition of S and S113

4.1.3 Two-band model114

4.2.Some comments on thermoelectric refrigeration116

4.2.1 A model problem at low temperatures118

References125

Index129