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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Geometric Shape Induced Small Change of Seebeck Coefficient in Bulky Metallic Wires.

Gang Li, Xiaohui Su, Fan Yang, Xiaoye Huo, Gengmin Zhang, Shengyong Xu

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Gang LiKey Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. pkloylee@pku.edu.cn.
Xiaohui SuKey Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. suxiaohui211@163.com.
Fan YangKey Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. fyang1992@pku.edu.cn.
Xiaoye HuoKey Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. xiaoye.huo@tx.technion.ac.il.
Gengmin ZhangKey Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. zgmin@pku.edu.cn.
Shengyong XuKey Laboratory for the Physics & Chemistry of Nanodevices, and Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. xusy@pku.edu.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we report the results of slight changes in the thermopower of long W, Mo, Zn, Cu, brass, and Ti wires, that resulted from changes in the wire's diameter or cross-sectional area. The samples used in the tests had a round shape with a diameter that ranged from tens of micron to 2 mm, which was much larger than the corresponding mean free paths of these materials. Nevertheless, a small change in thermopower, at the order of 1-10 nV/K, was repeatedly observed when the wire diameter was changed, or when the cross-sectional area of the wire was altered by mechanical methods, such as grinding or splitting. The results are consistent with previous observations showing that the thermopower in metallic thin film stripes changes with their width, from 100 μm to as little as 70 nm, implying a universal, geometric-boundary-related size effect of thermopower in metal materials, that occurs at the nanometer scale and continuously decreases all the way to the millimeter scale. This effect could be applied in the manufacturing of high-temperature sensors with simple structures.

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bulky metallic wirehigh-temperature sensormean free pathsize effectthermopower

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PMID28208585
PMCPMC5336019

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