Relationship of thermoelectricity to electronic entropy
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 30 (5), 2843-2844
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.30.2843
Abstract
It is shown that , the partial molal entropy of electrons in material , is given by , where is Faraday's constant and the absolute thermoelectric power of . This result depends on three propositions. (1) The Kelvin relations are valid for all thermoelectric materials. (2) Under isothermal conditions, the Peltier effect is truly reversible. (3) For a degenerate free-electron Fermi gas, the thermoelectric power is proportional to the entropy.
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