Author(s)

F. V. Kharlamov, V. F. Kharlamov

State University, Education-Science-Production Complex, Orel, Russia.

The properties of a ball-shaped semiconductor particles and metal particles with a semiconductor thin film on the surface thereof are established. So the dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit of a material consisting of a large number of these particles is equal to 10 - 100.

Thermoelectric Effect, Energy Transformation, Semiconductor, Particles

Kharlamov, F. and Kharlamov, V. (2014) Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of a Material Consisting of Particles in Dependency on the Parameters of a Material. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 2, 953-959. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2014.210108.