Method of manufacturing a thermoelectric element
US4654224A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 19, 1985 |
| Grant date | Mar 31, 1987 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 19, 2005 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/12632
Abstract
Disclosed are a thermoelectric device and method of making the device. The device has a plurality of thermoelectric elements electrically in series and thermally in parallel, where the individual thermoelectric elements have a thermoelectric body formed of macroscopically disordered material with electrical contact surfaces at opposite ends and a multi-layered diffusion barrier coating on the electrical contact surfaces.
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