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It is shown that consideration of the effect of thermoelectric phenomena on effective conductivity and thermal conductivity can lead to “rigid” limitations on the effective thermoelectric quality factor. In some cases, a limiting value of the quality factor exists irrespective of how large the quality factor of the phases is.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Snarskii, M.I. Zhenirovskii, I.V. Bezsudnov, 2008, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2008, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 82–86.
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Snarskii, A.A., Zhenirovskii, M.I. & Bezsudnov, I.V. Limiting values of the quality factor of thermoelectric composites. Semiconductors 42, 80–85 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782608010119
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