Applied physics
No. 6, 2002

Material on the basis of PbTe for p-branches of thermoelectric coolers

Z. F. Agayev, E. A. Allahverdiyev, G. M. Murtuzov, D. Sh. Abdinov

Institute of Photoelectronics, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan Republic

The results of the studying of thermo- e.m.f., electrical conductivity and thermal conductiv-ity coefficients for PbTe over the temperature range 80—300 K have been presented. It is estab-lished that in non-annealed PbTe samples with the reduction of temperature change in the conduc-tivity from electronic to hole type occurs at low temperatures. After annealing at this sample n-type conductivity is observed over all investigated temperature range.

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