THERMOELECTRIC POWER GENERATION AND RELATED PHENOMENA

Abstract

An alloy of 85 GaAs-15 lAs was prepared by zone leveling at a slow crystallization rate, and an initial effort to prepare a GaSb-GaP alloy was undertaken. High-temperature electrical measurements were made on a GaAs-AlAs alloy and on a select d s ple of GaSb. Theoretical work on the electronic properties of GaAs and GaAs-AlAs based on the assumption of secondary minima in the conduction band has been carried ouand the predictions of theory compared with experimental results. Some difficulties have arisen in connection with the thermal-diffusivity measurements on GaAs-AlAs alloys and on germanium. Speculations on the origins of th se difficulties and measures being taken to surmount them are given. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 24, 1961
Accession Number
AD0258988

Entities

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Conduction Bands
  • Crystallization
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Diffusivity
  • Electrical Measurement
  • Energy Bands
  • Germanium
  • High Temperature
  • Leveling
  • Measurement
  • Physical Properties
  • Thermal Diffusivity
  • Thermoelectric Power Generation
  • Transition Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics