A description is given of a single piece of apparatus for measuring the three parameters involved in the figure of merit of a thermoelectric material. This apparatus uses only direct current and is based on Harman's technique, in which a temperature gradient is established by means of the Peltier effect. It is demonstrated that the corrections for radiative heat transfer take a relatively simple form at room temperature.
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Bowley et al. (1961) studied this question.
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