What’s the Seebeck effect?

The Seebeck effect, discovered in 1821 by Thomas Johann Seebeck, converts temperature differences between two dissimilar metals in a circuit into an electric current. The Peltier effect and Thomson effect are related phenomena. Thermocouple thermometers use these effects to convert thermal potential difference into electrical potential difference. The Seebeck effect describes a thermoelectric phenomenon by […]

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