Saturday, February 8, 2014

ScienceDaily: Consumer Electronics News

ScienceDaily: Consumer Electronics News


Large thermoelectric power from a combination of magnets and superconductors

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 05:37 AM PST

Thermoelectric devices can cool materials by passing currents, or convert temperature differences into electric power. However, especially metallic structures have a very poor thermoelectric performance, and therefore most thermoelectrics are made of semiconductors. Now researchers have shown how a proper combination of magnetic metals and superconductors could allow reaching very strong thermoelectric conversion efficiency.

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