ABSTRACT
As early as 1954, Goldsmid and Douglas [1] identied the materials that are now the most commonly used in the thermoelectric industry for either Peltier cooling or thermoelectric power generation. These materials belong to the class of tetradymite-type semiconductors
CONTENTS
2.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 39 2.2 Structure ................................................................................................................................42 2.3 Electronic Band Structures .................................................................................................44
