Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric – Thermoelectric
Patent
1996-07-15
1998-09-15
Gorgos, Kathryn L.
Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
Thermoelectric
136201, 136227, 1362361, 148595, 148639, 148644, 164423, 164463, 374179, H01L 3512, H01L 3534, C22F 100
Patent
active
058082336
ABSTRACT:
A thermocouple formed of a length of a single composition having first solid phase section adjoining a second solid phase section, and a transition therebetween. One method of making such thermocouples is to raise the temperature of the first solid phase section above its transformation temperature while maintaining the temperature of a second adjoining solid phase section of the length of material below its transformation temperature. A second method includes rapidly solidifying a molten material by contacting it with a moving substrate formed of adjoining regions of differing thermal conductivity. A third method includes rapidly solidifying a molten material by alternatingly contacting it with a cooling fluid and air. A fourth method includes transforming a section of a length of material in a first solid to a second solid phase by mechanical means.
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Chen Jim J. S.
Finkel Mikhail V.
Goncalves Antonio M.
Carroll Chrisman D.
Gorgos Kathryn L.
Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
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