TERMOELETTRICITÀ: DALL’ARCO DI ALESSANDRO VOLTA AI GENERATORI TERMOELETTRICI FERRO-LIQUIDI

Abstract

We start this concise review from the exciting history of thermoelectricity in which such names as Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Thomas Seebeck, Walter Nernst, William Tompson, Georg Wilhelm Hegel and many others have been involved. We then move on to the main concepts in description of thermoelectric phenomena, discuss how to increase their magnitude and efficiency, formulate the requirements for modern thermoelectric materials and present thermoelectric applications that are already available.